Re: [PATCH 0/7] Make core VMA operations internal and testable

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 03 2024 - 17:45:43 EST


On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 21:33:00 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > > 51 files changed, 3914 insertions(+), 2453 deletions(-)
> >
> > eep. The best time for me to merge this is late in the -rc cycle so
> > the large skew between mainline and mm.git doesn't spend months
> > hampering ongoing development. But that merge time is right now.
>
> Argh. Well, the numbers are scary, but it's _mostly_ moving code around
> with some pretty straightforward refactorings and adding a bunch of
> userland code that won't impact kernels at all.
>
> So I'd argue this is less crazy in size than it might seem...

OK, let's leave it a couple of days for some feedback then decide.
It's still a couple of weeks until we go upstream.