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

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 09:18:57AM GMT, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 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?

Hm, that's very odd that the IDs changed. The only thing that I did was
b4 trailers -u on the branch to quickly check whether I missed an RvBs
or Acks. But there were none so I assumed that the commit ids wouldn't
change. Let me check and rollback if that was the case.