Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 0/3] x86/mm: LAM fixups and cleanups
From: Yosry Ahmed
Date: Tue Jul 02 2024 - 14:55:51 EST
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 11:38 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/2/24 11:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But when people run older (or current) kernels on newer hardware, they
> > will hit this. So a backport to cover 82721d8b25d7 ("x86/mm: Handle
> > LAM on context switch") is needed.
> >
> > The series doesn't seem to be getting much traction so I can add it to
> > mm.git's mm-unstable branch for wider testing, but it's clearly an x86
> > tree thing.
>
> I was really hoping Andy L would look at this since he suggested this
> whole thing really.
>
> I completely agree that this needs some wider testing. How about I pull
> it into x86/mm so it gets some linux-next testing instead of having it
> in mm-unstable? Maybe it'll also attract Andy's attention once it's in
> there.
That would be great. Thanks Dave!