Re: [PATCH 7.2.y] mm/damon/core: skip aging from repeated aggressive merging

[SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:15:05 +0200 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 06:02:09PM -0700, SJ Park wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 14:19:27 +0200 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Does not apply to the latest 7.2.y queue :(
> > 
> > Thank you, just rebased the patch to 7.2.5-rc1 and posted as another reply [1].
> > 
> > As number of stable patches for DAMON is increasing, this kind of patch
> > applying-order based conflict might be even more common in future.  Maybe I
> > could reduce this kind of issues if I could post fixed patches as single patch
> > series, instead of replying to this kind of individual failure report.
> > 
> > I was initially worried if your workflow is dependent to the guided workflow
> > (replying ported patch as a reply to each failure report), and hence if this
> > could make your job more difficult.  But I know the stable patch submission
> > rules are quite flexible.  And you may already have good enough automation for
> > such small change.s  So as long as I keep the essential stable patches rule
> > (use 'cherry-pick -x' option and add target branch name as patch subject tag),
> > that might not really make your work worse?
> 
> A patch series is great, and much simpler for me to apply, otherwise I
> have to just guess and go by the email date/time stamp to order them.

Thank you, I will try this next time.


Thanks,
SJ

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