From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: muchun.song@linux.dev, dave@stgolabs.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: sort out global lock annotations
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:39:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240828143900.d0fe36a6c05982159607fd3d@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGudoHH3hFu=7_ouHz+HY8djBxZj3-Zw30gE-F0H_2t1=sv_0A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:02:39 +0200 Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We'd need a new DEFINE_SPINLOCK_ALIGNED() or something.
> >
> > Ho hum, I'll fix.
>
> that would be a nice addition
>
> so as is this triviality grew to 3 patches which I consider rather
> extreme, and the middle one breaks the build
>
> In the vfs land this would get squashed into one commit with a
> maintainer note that some tweaking was performed, which I would
> suggest here
Yep. In mm land they get piled up as base+fix+fix-2 etc and then
squashed before being moved into mm.git's non-rebasing mm-stable
branch.
> alternatively, given the trivial nature of the entire thing, if you
> add DEFINE_SPINLOCK_ALIGNED and do the annotation tweak, you may as
> well commit this as your own patch. I don't need any credit
eh, it's very minor.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-28 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-28 16:07 Mateusz Guzik
2024-08-28 19:49 ` Andrew Morton
2024-08-28 20:13 ` Mateusz Guzik
2024-08-28 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2024-08-28 21:02 ` Mateusz Guzik
2024-08-28 21:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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