Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] memfd-based Userspace MFR Policy for HugeTLB

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 09:45:24PM -0800, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 9:23 AM Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jiaqi,
> >
> > It seems this series got stalled on review, wondered if you planned to
> > respin it at all?
>
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> Yeah, I was stuck on the issue Miaohe pointed out for quite a long time...
>
> In offline chat with William <william.roche@oracle.com> he expressed
> interests in taking over this patch series. However, he seemed busy
> with something else and couldn't get to it.
>
> Fortunately we have more powerful AI now than we did six months ago.
> While I worked on [1] with an AI assistant since 2 weeks ago, I worked
> out a solution to the issue Miaohe raised [2] with the help from AI,
> and now a working draft patch series. I think by the end of this
> weekend, I can send out a v4 built on [1], the patch series I just
> posted for freeing high-order folio that has HWPoison subpages.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20261110053331.2708996-1-jiaqiyan@google.com
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/5e0fc743-eb44-b69f-01a2-da7b6f2eca8d@huawei.com/#t

Thanks for the update! Though do note [0], given the current wave of
AI-generated fixes this cycle is focused on that rather than new features (sorry
I know I chased this, but nobody anticipated how busy we would be with these!)

And since you mention AI, obligatory disclaimer: as with everything AI - please
rewrite all commit messages and comments in kernel mm style, and make sure you
understand every bit of the code when you submit! :)

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Cheers, Lorenzo

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a2f584f6-e382-4876-aa6d-d5a34de6ee59@kernel.org/