Re: [PATCH v6 00/26] fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts

[Dan Williams]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 23:05:56 -0800 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > >  - Remove PTE_DEVMAP definitions from Loongarch which were added since
> > >    this series was initially written.
> > [..]
> > > 
> > > base-commit: e25c8d66f6786300b680866c0e0139981273feba
> > 
> > If this is going to go through nvdimm.git I will need it against a
> > mainline tag baseline. Linus will want to see the merge conflicts.
> > 
> > Otherwise if that merge commit is too messy, or you would rather not
> > rebase, then it either needs to go one of two options:
> > 
> > - Andrew's tree which is the only tree I know of that can carry
> >   patches relative to linux-next.
> 
> I used to be able to do that but haven't got around to setting up such
> a thing with mm.git.  This is the first time the need has arisen,
> really.

Oh, good to know.

> 
> > - Wait for v6.14-rc1 
> 
> I'm thinking so.  Darrick's review comments indicate that we'll be seeing a v7.
> 
> > and get this into nvdimm.git early in the cycle
> >   when the conflict storm will be low.
> 
> erk.  This patchset hits mm/ a lot, and nvdimm hardly at all.  Is it
> not practical to carry this in mm.git?

I'm totally fine with it going through mm.git. nvdimm.git is just the
historical path for touches to fs/dax.c, and git blame points mostly to
me for the issues Alistair is fixing. I am happy to review and ack and
watch this go through mm.git.