From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] mm: continue vma_flags_t conversion
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 09:50:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109095033.ed2b0334c862ca832389ea7d@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab4be2bc-8959-4c09-a120-37e216279dae@kernel.org>
On Mon, 9 Nov 2026 18:48:07 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org> wrote:
> On 11/9/26 18:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Nov 2026 14:40:48 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/7/26 21:09, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> >>> I think we're slightly talking across purposes, so to be clear - I am totally
> >>> fine with you taking any of this through your tree or whatever works for you and
> >>> Andrew to avoid merge pain :)
> >>>
> >>> I was just talking more generally about how to merge series that touch a lot of
> >>> subsystems and maintainers-who-may-never-reply, etc.
> >>>
> >>> These are the edge cases that make things... fun :)
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, I guess easiest resolution here is for you to take the bits that belong
> >>> to your trees and Andrew takes the bits that belong elsewhere?
> >>
> >> Yes, that's what I did now, applying #1,#3,#4,#5,#6
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > I'll remove the whole series from mm.git immediately for
> > collision-avoidance reasons - let's sort things out later.
>
> The mm-next merge today still worked (minor conflict on #7 due to one
> unnecessary ksm.c hunk I commented on), so you could have likely just kept all
> but the above patches.
OK, I'll take a look at re-adding things...
> >
> > I'll get better/more accurate about this soon - I need to set up
> > infrastructure to fetch everyone else's trees, do test merges and
> > figure out what should be removed/fixed in mm.git. I might just base
> > mm.git on everyone-else and always route its stuff ->david. I need to
> > spend a bit of time on this and discuss with the mm-next peeps.
>
> Ack!
...once this is in place!
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Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-05 21:30 [PATCH 00/13] mm: continue vma_flags_t conversion Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 01/13] mm/gup: convert GUP code to use vma_flags_t Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:38 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 3:47 ` Barry Song
2026-11-06 5:47 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-09 13:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 02/13] mm/filemap: convert fault and readahead logic " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:41 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 11:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-08 7:20 ` Barry Song
2026-11-08 7:42 ` Barry Song
2026-11-09 12:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 03/13] mm/rmap: convert remaining VMA flag tests " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:37 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 3:04 ` Baolin Wang
2026-11-06 3:57 ` Barry Song
2026-11-06 11:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-06 5:54 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-09 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 04/13] mm/migrate: convert " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:39 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 3:05 ` Baolin Wang
2026-11-06 4:10 ` Barry Song
2026-11-06 5:58 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-09 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 05/13] mm: convert THP " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:40 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 3:07 ` Baolin Wang
2026-11-06 4:01 ` Barry Song
2026-11-06 6:03 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-06 14:36 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-09 12:27 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-09 13:38 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 06/13] mm/ksm: convert " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:40 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 6:09 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-06 7:42 ` Xu Xin (vivo)
2026-11-09 13:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 07/13] mm/madvise: convert madvise_vma_behavior() " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:43 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 6:38 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-09 13:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-09 14:10 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-09 17:01 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:30 ` [PATCH 08/13] mm: convert miscellaneous VMA flag tests " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:43 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 1:01 ` SJ Park
2026-11-06 6:40 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-09 13:45 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-12 5:36 ` Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-05 21:31 ` [PATCH 09/13] fs/proc/task_mmu: convert " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 6:59 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-06 10:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:31 ` [PATCH 10/13] fs/coredump: convert vma_dump_size() " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:44 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 7:03 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-05 21:31 ` [PATCH 11/13] uprobes: convert VMA flag tests " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:44 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 7:12 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-05 21:31 ` [PATCH 12/13] perf: " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:46 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-06 7:45 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-05 21:31 ` [PATCH 13/13] security: " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:46 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-05 23:17 ` Paul Moore
2026-11-06 1:22 ` Paul Moore
2026-11-06 2:13 ` Fan Wu
2026-11-06 10:13 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-06 7:51 ` Lance Yang
2026-11-06 14:35 ` [PATCH 00/13] mm: continue vma_flags_t conversion David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-06 15:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-07 19:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-07 20:09 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-09 13:40 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-09 17:44 ` Andrew Morton
2026-11-09 17:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-09 17:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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