Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings

From: Stanislav Kinsburskii

Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 23:22:47 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 03:11:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:26:20 -0700 Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This series extends the HMM framework to support userfaultfd-backed memory
> > by allowing the mmap read lock to be dropped during hmm_range_fault().
>
> Thanks. This seems fairly mature and mostly-reviewed so I'll give it a
> spin in mm.git's mm-new branch.
>
> Unfortunately Sashiko wasn't able to apply this or v7. I'm not sure
> what base you were using. Hopefully there's a reason for a v9 so we
> can retry this.
>

I rebased this series on top of mm-new right before sending it out.
Should I have used a different branch?

Thanks,
Stanislav

> I have a few niggles, nothing major...