Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v4 0/5] mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites

From: Roman Gushchin

Date: Thu Mar 26 2026 - 00:46:48 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:40:17 -0600 Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> MAINTAINER NOTE: This is based on mm-unstable with the coresponding
>> patches reverted then reapplied.
>
> Unfortunately the update-in-place trick fooled AI review, which might
> have been useful. Oh well. In retrospect we could have avoided that
> by you asking me to drop v3 a couple of days before mailing out v4.
>
> otoh, this series *does* apply to the mm-stable branch. Roman, I
> though Sashiko is attempting that?

It did, but for some reason it failed.
You can actually see which trees/branches it tried under the Baseline
section for each patchset. And yes, I need to improve it to log specific
sha's, not only something like mm/mm-new. Now it's kinda hard to say why
it failed.