Re: [PATCH v3 00/27] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs

Peter Xu
2021-06-03T00:09:59Z

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 03:36:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 10:40:04 -0400 Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 04:19:00PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > This is v3 of uffd-wp shmem & hugetlbfs support, which completes uffd-wp as a
> > > kernel full feature, as it only supports anonymous before this series. It's
> > > based on latest v5.13-rc3-mmots-2021-05-25-20-12.
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > Any suggestion on how I should move on with this series?
> >
>
> It is large, and thinly reviewed. I haven't seriously looked at it
> yet. If nothing much else happens I might toss it in there for some
> additional exposure but I do think more input from other developers is
> needed before we go further.

It's just that the 1st RFC series was posted ~6 months ago and the major things
should be mostly the same since then (we've got a few patches merged; but
mostly for the sake of dependencies of other projects):

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210115170907.24498-1-peterx@redhat.com/

So I start to doubt whether I should ask you for help (after bothering at least
Mike and Hugh already :), as I have very little confidence that this series
will be reviewed thoroughly in the near future if I do nothing.

But I definitely agree with you, it's still relatively large changeset with not
so much review done. Let's keep it there for some more time, then.

Thanks,

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Peter Xu