Re: Process (was Re: [PATCH mm-hotfixes-unstable v18 00/14] khugepaged: add mTHP) collapse support

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 6/2/26 14:55, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> On 6/2/26 13:31, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>>> Yeah, but as we said, we discussed, it's all rather complicated and we should
>>> move incrementally.
>>>
>>
>> Starting to read Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst, it's very interesting:
>>
>> “The tip tree is both a direct development tree and and an aggregation tree for
>> several sub-maintainer trees.”
>>
>> “In general, development against the head of the tip tree master branch is fine,
> 
> I don't think we'll be able to use this part as mm-next will be only an
> aggreggation tree and not also a direct development tree.

Take a look at tip.git / master:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/

It's basically an aggregation tree.

But what yous end there will just apply to the relevant sub-branches where it
can simply be cherry-picked?

-- 
Cheers,

David