Re: [PATCH 00/34] put_user_pages(): miscellaneous call sites

From: John Hubbard
Date: Thu Aug 08 2019 - 14:18:56 EST


On 8/8/19 9:25 AM, Weiny, Ira wrote:
>>
>> On 8/7/19 7:36 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 10:46:49AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>> On Wed 07-08-19 10:37:26, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>>> On Fri 02-08-19 12:14:09, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/2/19 7:52 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri 02-08-19 07:24:43, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:41:46PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Fri 02-08-19 11:12:44, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu 01-08-19 19:19:31, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> [...]
> Yep I can do this. I did not realize that Andrew had accepted any of this work. I'll check out his tree. But I don't think he is going to accept this series through his tree. So what is the ETA on that landing in Linus' tree?
>

I'd expect it to go into 5.4, according to my understanding of how
the release cycles are arranged.


> To that point I'm still not sure who would take all this as I am now touching mm, procfs, rdma, ext4, and xfs.
>
> I just thought I would chime in with my progress because I'm to a point where things are working and so I can submit the code but I'm not sure what I can/should depend on landing... Also, now that 0day has run overnight it has found issues with this rebase so I need to clean those up... Perhaps I will base on Andrew's tree prior to doing that...

I'm certainly not the right person to answer, but in spite of that, I'd think
Andrew's tree is a reasonable place for it. Sort of.

thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA