Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the slab tree

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Sep 09 2024 - 03:19:06 EST


On 9/9/24 09:12, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The following commits are also in the vfs-brauner tree as different
> commits (but the same patches):
>
> c0390d541128 ("fs: pack struct file")
> ea566e18b4de ("fs: use kmem_cache_create_rcu()")
> d345bd2e9834 ("mm: add kmem_cache_create_rcu()")
> e446f18e98e8 ("mm: remove unused argument from create_cache()")
> 0f389adb4b80 ("mm: Removed @freeptr_offset to prevent doc warning")
>
> These are commits
>
> f2b8943e64a8 ("fs: pack struct file")
> d1e381aa30cb ("fs: use kmem_cache_create_rcu()")
> ba8108d69e5b ("mm: add kmem_cache_create_rcu()")
> a85ba9858175 ("mm: remove unused argument from create_cache()")
> 6e016babce7c ("mm: Removed @freeptr_offset to prevent doc warning")
>
> in the vfs-brauner tree.
>
> These duplicates are causing unnecessary comflicts ...

Thanks,

Christian told me merging the vfs.file branch (a necessary prerequisity for
one series in slab) would be ok as it was stable at that point. What
happened? If I do redo with a new merge, will that stay unchanged until the
merge window?

Vlastimil