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

Dan Williams
2025-01-11T03:36:09Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Oh, good to know.

>
> > - 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?

I'm totally fine with it going through mm.git. nvdimm.git is just the
historical path for touches to fs/dax.c, and git blame points mostly to
me for the issues Alistair is fixing. I am happy to review and ack and
watch this go through mm.git.