Could we command Sashiko for "Failed to apply"? (was "Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] Implement a new generic pagewalk API")

Could we command Sashiko for "Failed to apply"? (was "Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] Implement a new generic pagewalk API")

[SeongJae Park]

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On Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:11:48 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:57:12 +0200 Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Also, I would like to thank Vlastimil, who helped me running this
> > patchset quite a few times through Claude, to catch some fixes.
> 
> Well dang, I wanted to do a Claude-vs-Sashiko cage match, but "Failed
> to apply".  Again :(
> (https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260426125719.24698-1-osalvador@suse.de).

I also got [1] a "Failed to apply" yesterday.  For that, I was asking a way to
make this better for only DAMON patches.  But seems DAMON is not a single user
who getting this problem.

I'm wondering if we could have some kind of magic words for Sashiko, like the
syzbot has.  That is, replying to a patch with a magic words and the baseline
info like below makes Sashiko tries applying patches again with the given
baseline.

E.g., #sashiko-retry-baseline git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sj/linux.git 0123456789ab

Never an urgent request, but just a brainstorming attempt.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260425221630.81644-1-sj@kernel.org


Thanks,
SJ

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