Re: [PATCH 7.2.y] mm/damon/core: skip aging from repeated aggressive merging

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 06:02:09PM -0700, SJ Park wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 14:19:27 +0200 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > Does not apply to the latest 7.2.y queue :(
> 
> Thank you, just rebased the patch to 7.2.5-rc1 and posted as another reply [1].
> 
> As number of stable patches for DAMON is increasing, this kind of patch
> applying-order based conflict might be even more common in future.  Maybe I
> could reduce this kind of issues if I could post fixed patches as single patch
> series, instead of replying to this kind of individual failure report.
> 
> I was initially worried if your workflow is dependent to the guided workflow
> (replying ported patch as a reply to each failure report), and hence if this
> could make your job more difficult.  But I know the stable patch submission
> rules are quite flexible.  And you may already have good enough automation for
> such small change.s  So as long as I keep the essential stable patches rule
> (use 'cherry-pick -x' option and add target branch name as patch subject tag),
> that might not really make your work worse?

A patch series is great, and much simpler for me to apply, otherwise I
have to just guess and go by the email date/time stamp to order them.

thanks,

greg k-h