Re: [PATCH v18 00/12] Support page table check on PowerPC

Andrew Donnellan
2026-01-16T03:14:09Z

On Thu, 2026-01-15 at 16:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:13:26 +1100 Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2026-01-14 at 10:34 +0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
> > > What is the merge plan ? I see all powerpc commits are acked by Maddy,
> > > will the series be merged by Andrew into the mm tree ?
> >
> > This is what I was expecting - this revision is rebased on mm-new as it
> > stood
> > around when I sent it.
>
> Ouch, sorry, I did not understand this.  So we've lost 4 weeks testing :(
>
> The core MM and ARM changes are trival, in the if-it-compiles-it-works
> category.  Is the mm tree really the best place for this?  It'll get
> more testing in the powerpc tree?
>
> But if you're OK with it, I'm OK with it.
>
> > By the way it doesn't apply on top of powerpc/merge branch:
>
> I guess we'll be hearing from Mark when this hits linux-next.
> Hopefully the resolution isn't horrible.
>
> As I'm adding this to mm.git's mm-new branch, Mark won't actually be
> seeing it.  I'll aim to move this into mm-unstable (and hence
> linux-next) after just a single day.

Thanks, sorry for the confusion! *Hopefully* 18th time's the charm...

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Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@linux.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited