Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: mm: Fix some memory-related issues

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Nov 22 2023 - 13:29:53 EST


On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:23:58 +0300 Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just recently I've rebased my MIPS32-related work from kernel 6.5-rc4 onto
> the latest kernel 6.7-rc1 and immediately got into a bootup-time
> mm-related bug (see patches 3-5 in this series). After fixing it I decided
> it was time to submit for review the generic MIPS code fixes which I have
> been collecting in my local repo for the last year. I was going to submit
> them a bit later after I finished working on a patchset with my SoC
> arch-specific changes, but since it was getting bigger and bigger, it
> turned to be reasonable to spill out the generic part of series right away
> especially seeing it might get to be useful in the most recent kernel.

It would have been better to separate out the two tiny unrelated MM
patches from this series. I'll steal them - if they later turn up via
the MIPS tree then that's OK.