Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/7] thp: transparent hugepages on s390

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Aug 31 2012 - 15:47:13 EST


On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:07:57 +0200
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I grabbed them all. Patches 1-3 look sane to me and I cheerfully
> > didn't read the s390 changes at all. Hopefully Andrea will be able to
> > review at least patches 1-3 for us.
> >
> > If that all goes well, how do we play this? I'd prefer to merge 1-3
> > myself, as they do interact with ongoing MM development. I can also
> > merge 4-7 if appropriate s390 maintainer acks are seen. Or I can drop
> > them and the s390 parts can be merged via the s390 tree at a later
> > date?
>
> I would really appreciate if Andrea could have a look at the code.

Yes please ;)

> I've
> read the patches and I am fine with them but it is very easy to miss some
> important bit.
>
> As far as upstreaming is concerned: I can deal with the pure s390 parts
> via the s390 tree if that helps you. If you prefer the carry all of them,
> that is fine with me as well.

It would be easiest/simplest if I were to merge it all. But that means
that the s390 developers wouldn't have tested it much, unless they're
testing linux-next?

I guess that's not the end of the world - you'll have a couple of
months after -rc1 to find and fix any problems.

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