Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Devmap cleanups + arm64 support

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Fri Jul 05 2019 - 08:32:22 EST


On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 04:37:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> > If we give up on CH's series the hmm.git will not have conflicts,
> > however we just kick the can to the next merge window where we will be
> > back to having to co-ordinate amd/nouveau/rdma git trees and -mm's
> > patch workflow - and I think we will be worse off as we will have
> > totally given up on a git based work flow for this. :(
>
> I think the problem would be resolved going forward post-v5.3 since we
> won't have two tress managing kernel/memremap.c. This cycle however
> there is a backlog of kernel/memremap.c changes in -mm.

IHMO there is always something :(

CH's series had something like 5 different collisions already, and I
think we did a good job of with everything but your subsection
patches.

Jason