Re: [PATCH 5.15.y 0/6] mm/hugetlb: fixes for PMD table sharing (incl. using mmu_gather)

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-08T12:52:31Z

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 10:00:44AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 3/12/26 18:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 05:42:13PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This series was sent a ~month ago, is anything holding this up? The underlying
> >> issue is causing a really serious regression so it's quite urgent to get this
> >> pulled ASAP :)
> >
> > I see 70+ pending 5.15 patches that people have backported that need to
> > be queued up as well as the pending upstream patches. During the -rc1
> > cycle the stable trees get flooded, so the older kernels take a while to
> > get released as they are on the bottom of our priority list.
> >
> > We'll get to them "soon", they aren't lost.
>
> I assume that is still the case, another 3 weeks later? :)

These are all queued up now, right? It's a matter of actually doing a
5.15.y release, which seems to be on the every-month-or-so cycle as
devices relying on this old kernel sure are not used to updating very
often, right?

thanks,

greg k-h