From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A9BB264 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2026 00:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780704107; cv=none; b=cKaq7Kt/b7FpgLoL510x6jMMwPtjzyEm8tZJCVgcjPkMXUhBLLyqJZsy8x557ahxbF1jXnHBDRbOucO7cxcMUr+mo8Vu57mfoOnwjX75AOjQmpYomqY+/Vo9lFtUX/WpkCIvOsvxswlJ36/Cqk7INnTXGyD7H1OBSF/lnLJTX7E= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780704107; c=relaxed/simple; bh=QsRxRi+pJLSh7JDZkWVNAcm73/qLPNLoAQUAa30O4+U=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=S+I/sHEYB2pmi0JHFbZwPrJJ7RFcTAdtCjEbeUm1LaI0jpQWN4QBv9cpf6VK3zghYaeNeKxFrG0wCxUzw8PmO4fNAcP8OFTcFmEDA4MyDEhOhEXxUclvRNUGSvVh2AiQIA0qQ2EPJqiNvdCJlhEvbifdkZ059NkPKR3SLnJSLzA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=OsUaZ3qP; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="OsUaZ3qP" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCF021F00893; Sat, 6 Jun 2026 00:01:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1780704106; bh=pqWYuw9fMZ0HJi94khPWYsnX8/BSDjE/fdElKDO8oUI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=OsUaZ3qPlL1jbAyzayrQRb+dyjgqQoq+2mYizaMceSAnuP7GoL81jreSO0O8hQqqs oUGG8RZ1flCtXeCi1+u3mY/K9j/e07C/JUQbqed6cWiStrOSR7if7Gu2v1Q3tkQDtY BM8YfUCXu/AZlOAsG2YvvQ3nTpBw9Bomh7tBFaoLsBAFZY/QngBoZ+uSjhPN9VytDF NzPxhvTzH7vHs7ZTE3ngtfhM6Msp/IkSdUQXHPCyJgUhKnFEc6j0vfmgOHvxujCulB idtoLFfAh9iLJZG2k5xbmeA0pKooJ5ULDQFySMkGdQ6VjMAC/y7LqX3fo1rSKC7xI/ M0PZ1i+83pkcA== From: SeongJae Park To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: SeongJae Park , "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" , Lorenzo Stoakes , Nico Pache , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, liam@infradead.org, mhocko@suse.com, rppt@kernel.org, vbabka@suse.cz, willy@infradead.org Subject: Re: Process (was Re: [PATCH mm-hotfixes-unstable v18 00/14] khugepaged: add mTHP) collapse support Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:01:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20260606000142.88128-1-sj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <2ca2c36d-318a-4668-bce9-3a0387135904@kernel.org> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:24:25 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > On 6/3/26 03:48, SeongJae Park wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 15:16:27 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > > > >> On 6/2/26 15:08, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote: [...] > I guess, as a first step, we'll document something similar to what TIP documents > in that regard. Sounds like a good plan :) [...] > I'm sure we'll figure out how bad one approach or the other is as we move > forward, we can always adjust that. Conflicts will haunt us :) > > But I assume, independent of what we document, we will always have people that > submit to arbitrary trees, and it will be out job to make sense of it (or ask to > resend). > > Documentation is good, as long as people read it ... Agreed. Nonetheless, even when people don't read it, it helps us typing less, since we can give them a link to the doc instead of repeatedly explaining the details. And thankfully some people do read it when we gie the link. At least a few contribution guides in DAMON maintainer entry document [1] helped me in the way. > > > > > mm-next maintainer's perspective might see many different things, though. I > > will be more than glad to be learn what I'm missing and get enlightened. > > > > Anyway I think both approaches may work, and we can learn from others and > > trying on our own. I will be happy to help when there is something that I can > > help. :) > > That's the right spirit! :) > > We'll discuss this topic in more detail as we move forward! Fully agreed, and appreciate your effort on this! [1] https://origin.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/mm/damon/maintainer-profile.html Thanks, SJ [...]