Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries
From: Usama Arif
Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 06:46:20 EST
On 30/06/2026 20:50, 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
>
>
Thanks Andrew! I think most of the stuff sashiko pointed to is not
introduced by this series or can be ignored.
I will wait a few days and then send the PMD core series on latest
mm-new.