Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm/shmem: various (urgent?) fixes

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 17:13:26 EST


On 10/26/26 21:08, Gregory Price wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 10:40:33AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> I did my best trying to test these fixes. I was able to reproduce some
>> of the things (including unkillable truncation hangs), and the fixes seemed
>> to help.
>
> Given the (urgent?) you're the unwilling recipient of my schlopp-testing
> harness. The good news is that the selftests (attached) all look
> reasonable and reproduce quite easily.

Thanks! Yeah, I had ran a bunch myself, but not as many as you managed to
trigger I think.

>
> Everything below is largely clanker-generated, but after a review I feel
> comfortable with tagging this.
>
> I was able to directly test:
> #1-#5
> #10
> #12-#16
>
> so for those you can add:
>
> Tested-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> feel free to take or leave the selftests.

Thanks, no time to polish selftest ;)

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Cheers,

David