Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] rv: Convert to use lock guard

[Gabriele Monaco]

> On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 20:38:16 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It's best to always use your latest branch that you did your last pull on
> during a release cycle.
>
> I see you based these changes on v6.18-rc7, but your previous pull was
> based on v6.18-rc5. If I were to pull this in, it gets a bit spaghetti like
> in the merges.
>
>   v6.18-rc5 -> pull1
>   merge <- v6.18-rc7 <- pull2
>
> Where now we have changes between rc5 and rc7.  Was there a reason you
> based on top of rc7 and not use your last pull?
>
> It's fine sending urgent patches this way, as these tags are in Linus's
> tree and it's just new changes being added. But for a subsytem tree, it's
> best not to pull in Linus's tree unless there's a good reason to do that.

Yeah got it, there was no valid reason for that rebase, I'm going to keep it
stable next time or write it explicitly otherwise.

> What I can do is simply pull the patches on top of your last patch
> directly, and keep the history clean for my pull request to Linus.

I'm pushed the tag rebased on -rc5 (actually on the last PR) just in case it
makes your life easier:


The following changes since commit 69d8895cb9a9f6450374577af8584c2e21cb5a9f:

  rv: Add explicit lockdep context for reactors (2025-11-11 13:18:56 +0100)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gmonaco/linux.git rv-6.19-next-2-rc5

for you to fetch changes up to b30f635bb6492f02f2f704b46d898679371015cb:

  rv: Convert to use __free (2025-12-02 07:28:32 +0100)


Thanks,
Gabriele