shmem patches headsup: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs-linux: for-next updated to 9ee85f235efe

Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-14T08:03:09Z

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 12:18:41PM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote:
> The for-next branch of the xfs-linux repository at:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git
>
> has just been updated.

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> Christoph Hellwig (17):
> [f23e079e024c] mm: move mapping_set_update out of <linux/swap.h>
> [604ee858a8c8] shmem: move shmem_mapping out of line
> [8481cd645af6] shmem: set a_ops earlier in shmem_symlink
> [9b4ec2cf0154] shmem: move the shmem_mapping assert into shmem_get_folio_gfp
> [36e3263c623a] shmem: export shmem_get_folio
> [74f6fd19195a] shmem: export shmem_kernel_file_setup
> [eb84b86441e3] shmem: document how to "persist" data when using shmem_*file_setup

I would have prefer an ACK or even a shared branch in the MM tree
for these. But as it's been impossible to get any feedback from
the shmem and mm maintainer maybe this is the right thing to do.

Andrew, Hugh: can you commet if this is ok?