Re: [PATCH v6 00/26] fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts

Andrew Morton
2025-01-11T01:33:54Z

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 23:05:56 -0800 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:

> > - Remove PTE_DEVMAP definitions from Loongarch which were added since
> > this series was initially written.
> [..]
> >
> > base-commit: e25c8d66f6786300b680866c0e0139981273feba
>
> If this is going to go through nvdimm.git I will need it against a
> mainline tag baseline. Linus will want to see the merge conflicts.
>
> Otherwise if that merge commit is too messy, or you would rather not
> rebase, then it either needs to go one of two options:
>
> - Andrew's tree which is the only tree I know of that can carry
> patches relative to linux-next.

I used to be able to do that but haven't got around to setting up such
a thing with mm.git. This is the first time the need has arisen,
really.

> - Wait for v6.14-rc1

I'm thinking so. Darrick's review comments indicate that we'll be seeing a v7.

> and get this into nvdimm.git early in the cycle
> when the conflict storm will be low.

erk. This patchset hits mm/ a lot, and nvdimm hardly at all. Is it
not practical to carry this in mm.git?