Re: [PATCH -next] mm/swap_state: mark various intentional data races

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Feb 09 2020 - 23:03:59 EST


On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 21:56:38 -0500 Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:

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> > On Feb 9, 2020, at 9:00 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > The data_race() macro appears to be stuck in Paul's linx-next tree.
> > Can we expect this to be mainlined soon, or is there an issue?
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> I read Paul is trying to get this merged into the mainline no later than v5.7-rc1 or sooner.
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> lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200131211950.GX2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

OK, thanks.

c48981eeb0d5 clearly can't break anything as it simply adds a macro.
Ingo, can we please get that upstream soonish?