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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 07 May 2026 15:43:01 +0200 "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> > 1. Drop the patch
> >    => not preferred - crash would still remain, and the consistency
> >    improvements would be lost
> 
> This might be an option for the moment, until we have a better
> solution though.

Compromise: I temporarily moved this patch ("gcov: use atomic counter
updates to fix concurrent access crashes") into mm-git's mm-new branch.
So the patch still exists, is still under test by a few MM developers
but is no longer in linux-next.