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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 086/104] arm64: kasan: avoid bad virt_to_pfn()
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:23:21PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:47:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 02:00:53PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> >
> >> In this case, for example, this patch had a "review cycle" of 18 days
> >> where 4 different emails regarding this patch were sent out as it was
> >> making it's way through review and queues, so we already try to be
> >> as "loud" as we can with it.
> >
> >As someone on the reviewing side what I'm seeing is a bunch of stable
> >maintainers sending fairly large patch serieses that look like normal
> >stable review things.  That's not very loud.  I usually don't spend that
> >much time on stable reviews as up until this started happening anything
> >that went in was either something I'd pushed in directly or something
> >where I had spent more time on already after someone had sent a "hey, we
> >should backport this" mail.  Mails that look like the ones that have
> >been sent are just confirming prior review.
> 
> Okay, so something like [REVIEW automatic-patch-selection for 4.X]
> is sort of what you're suggesting?

That would work for me, thanks.

Will