From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>,
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Take a page reference when removing device exclusive entries
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:55:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230328125558.90cf40060e238b24add51d23@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538f85fc-3cc7-de5c-131e-ba776d5f35b5@nvidia.com>
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:25:49 -0700 John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On the patch process, I see that this applies to linux-stable's 6.1.y
> branch. I'd suggest two things:
>
> 1) Normally, what I've seen done is to post against either the current
> top of tree linux.git, or else against one of the mm-stable branches.
> And then after it's accepted, create a version for -stable.
Yup. I had to jiggle the patch a bit because
mmu_notifier_range_init_owner()'s arguments have changed. Once this
hits mainline, the -stable maintainers will probably ask for a version
which suits the relevant kernel version(s).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-28 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-28 2:14 Alistair Popple
2023-03-28 6:25 ` John Hubbard
2023-03-28 19:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-03-29 1:45 ` Alistair Popple
2023-03-28 19:59 ` Ralph Campbell
2023-03-29 3:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-03-29 3:45 ` John Hubbard
2023-03-30 0:26 ` Alistair Popple
2023-03-30 0:55 ` Alistair Popple
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