Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings

[Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 03:45:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:57:55 -0700 Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > I rebased this series on top of mm-new right before sending it out.
> > > > Should I have used a different branch?
> > > 
> > > mm-new is good - Sashiko attempts that.  But it's changing rapidly at
> > > this point in the development cycle.
> > > 
> > 
> > I’d like to send another revision addressing a few comments and also
> > replace the `max/max_t` check with something simpler.
> > 
> > Which branch should I base it on so that Sashiko can apply it
> > successfully?
> 
> mainline Linus would be safest.
> 

Looks like linux-next/master has been updated with the v8 of the series.

I have v9 with a few small fixes, but it is too late to send it out already?

If it's not, then what should I base it on?

Thanks,
Stanislav

> > Or would it be better to send fixups against `mm-new`?
> 
> That should work as well, but it doesn't give us a Sashiko scan of the
> whole patchset.