Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries
From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 14:13:08 EST
On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 07:10:34PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 7/2/26 19:08, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 05:57:34PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 05:53:48PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Well we're very grateful for what coverage it has :) and that's nice to have it
> >>> work with email like that also, makes life simpler.
> >>
> >>> Mark - are you running tests based on mm-new? I'm not sure where things stand on
> >>> that?
> >>
> >> I currently test -next, mainline and stable plus my own stuff.
> >
> > Ack thanks!
> >
> > I guess in the long run then we can figure out a way to not necessarily even
> > require mm-new at all, and instead let our CI try to handle as much as it can
> > before -> linux-next :)
> >
> > As that'd be the nicest way and help reduce confusion about branches for
> > mm-next.
>
> If we go the for-test route, we'd still have a branch where people/bots/tools
> can do more elaborate tests when throwing stuff together. I still consider that
> reasonable, but we'll have to see if we really need that.
Ah fair point :) I mean we can have both of course!
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David
Cheers, Lorenzo