Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:22:33 -0700 Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 03:11:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:26:20 -0700 Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > This series extends the HMM framework to support userfaultfd-backed memory
> > > by allowing the mmap read lock to be dropped during hmm_range_fault().
> > 
> > Thanks.  This seems fairly mature and mostly-reviewed so I'll give it a
> > spin in mm.git's mm-new branch.
> > 
> > Unfortunately Sashiko wasn't able to apply this or v7.  I'm not sure
> > what base you were using.  Hopefully there's a reason for a v9 so we
> > can retry this.
> > 
> 
> I rebased this series on top of mm-new right before sending it out.
> Should I have used a different branch?

mm-new is good - Sashiko attempts that.  But it's changing rapidly at
this point in the development cycle.