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

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Sep 09 2024 - 06:36:03 EST


On 9/9/24 12:13, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 11:40:25AM GMT, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>
>> > change. Let me check and rollback if that was the case.
>>
>> Thank!
>
> No problem. I promised a stable branch so you'll get one. :)
>
> So I rebased vfs.file onto the previous patches and pushed it out.
> Note that I've merged an additional series into vfs.file but that should
> not matter to you as long as you keep using our shared base.

> Note, I also pulled
>
> git pull -S slab slab/for-6.12/kmem_cache_args
>
> into vfs.file.slab for a test and that works fine so commit ids should
> be back to their previous state. But please do double-check.

It seems I'll be fine indeed as our shared base 0f389adb4b80 is back, but
looks like the top-most merge commit 3a3e007d8946 is wrong as it has
6e016babce7c (the rewrite of 0f389adb4b80) as parent instead, so there are
now duplicated commits in vfs.file itself:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/log/?h=vfs.file