Re: [GIT PULL] slab updates for 6.17

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:42:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 09:56, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > We've hit a last-minute snag last week when lkp reported [1] the commit
> > "mm, slab: use frozen pages for large kmalloc" exposed a pre-existing bug
> > in siw_tcp_sendpages(). Pedro has been fixing it [2] so hopefully that will
> > result in a PR soon, which you can pull before this one - or perhaps take
> > the fix directly. If that gets stuck for some reason and taking the fix
> > later would be unacceptable, I can do another PR with my commit taken out.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202507220801.50a7210-lkp@intel.com/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250723104123.190518-1-pfalcato@suse.de/
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> I've pulled this, although I don't see the rdma fix in the rdma tree
> (the pull for which is still pending in my inbox - I've merged a big
> chunk already, people have been very good about sending their pulls
> early - thanks)

It is not there, it was unclear in the emails what should happen and I
did not want to delay things due to your travel note.

> I'll take the fix directly in the worst case, but prefer for things to
> go through the normal subsystem maintainer if at all possible, and
> this one seems fairly straightforward.

I think it will be easiest for all if I send a one patch PR after you pick up
the main RDMA PR in the next few days. siw is not so critical that we
need to rush.

Thanks,
Jason