Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries

From: Usama Arif

Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 10:09:16 EST




On 30/06/2026 20:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:34:37 -0700 Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This is the preparatory part of the PMD page table swapin work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> This comes reasonably reviewed, so I'll queue it in mm-new.
>
> Why?
>
> - Human review coverage and AI review make me believe this isn't the
> final version at all, but I do believe this is something we want in
> 7.2, and getting it under test early will help to push it along.
>
> - Getting it in there early means that others will base their work on
> material which will probably be upstreamed this cycle, so this gives
> them a more accurate base against which to work.
>
> Sashiko did find a lot to talk about, some of it pre-existing so can
> people who work on this code please take a look at
>
> https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260630164143.1595669-1-usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx
>
>

There is one pre-existing bug pointed by sashiko that is not related to my series
that I think needs to be fixed. I have sent it in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260701140638.840773-1-usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx/