Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] Use asm-generic for mmu_context no-op functions

[Nicholas Piggin]

Excerpts from Arnd Bergmann's message of October 10, 2020 6:25 pm:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 4:02 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:01:22 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Are there other changes that depend on this? If not, I would
>> > just wait until -rc1 and then either push the branch correctly or
>> > rebase the patches on that first, to avoid pushing something that
>> > did not see the necessary testing.
>>
>> If it is useful enough (or important enough), then put in in your
>> linux-next included branch, but don't ask Linus to merge it until the
>> second week of the merge window ... no worse than some other stuff I
>> see :-(
> 
> By itself, it's a nice cleanup, but it doesn't provide any immediate
> benefit over the previous state, while potentially introducing a
> regression in one of the less tested architectures.
> 
> The question to me is really whether Nick has any pending work
> that he would like to submit after this branch is merged into
> mainline.

Not for this merge window but I was hoping to submit something for
improving lazy tlb handling in the next one.

Thanks,
Nick