Re: [-next conflict imminent] Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] mm, slub: handle pending kfree_rcu() in kmem_cache_destroy()
From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri Aug 09 2024 - 11:16:33 EST
On 8/9/24 17:12, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 5:02 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 8/7/24 12:31, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> > Also in git:
>> > https://git.kernel.org/vbabka/l/slab-kfree_rcu-destroy-v2r2
>>
>> I've added this to slab/for-next, there will be some conflicts and here's my
>> resulting git show or the merge commit I tried over today's next.
>>
>> It might look a bit different with tomorrow's next as mm will have v7 of the
>> conflicting series from Jann:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/1ca6275f-a2fc-4bad-81dc-6257d4f8d750@xxxxxxx/
>>
>> (also I did resolve it in the way I suggested to move Jann's block before
>> taking slab_mutex() but unless that happens in mm-unstable it would probably be more
>> correct to keep where he did)
>
> Regarding my conflicting patch: Do you want me to send a v8 of that
> one now to move things around in my patch as you suggested? Or should
> we do that in the slab tree after the conflict has been resolved in
> Linus' tree, or something like that?
> I'm not sure which way of doing this would minimize work for maintainers...
I guess it would be easiest to send a -fix to Andrew as it's rather minor
change. Thanks!