Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 12:50:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:34:37 -0700 Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This is the preparatory part of the PMD page table swapin work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> This comes reasonably reviewed, so I'll queue it in mm-new.
>
> Why?
>
> - Human review coverage and AI review make me believe this isn't the
>   final version at all, but I do believe this is something we want in
>   7.2, and getting it under test early will help to push it along.
>
> - Getting it in there early means that others will base their work on
>   material which will probably be upstreamed this cycle, so this gives
>   them a more accurate base against which to work.
>
> Sashiko did find a lot to talk about, some of it pre-existing so can
> people who work on this code please take a look at
>
> 	https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260630164143.1595669-1-usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx
>
>

Hm, my understanding was that mm-new is where we take everything submitted for
early testing?

Did something change?

Generally anything submitted early in the cycle is expected to land in the cycle
unless there's significant adverse review or other reasons it can't be taken.

Thanks, Lorenzo