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Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Jann Horn , Pedro Falcato , Rik van Riel , Harry Yoo , Laurence Oberman , Prakash Sangappa , Nadav Amit Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 0/4] mm/hugetlb: fixes for PMD table sharing (incl. using mmu_gather) Message-Id: <20260115125324.6373966518a479c585c4f404@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <84a00b16-0fd3-4a32-bb7a-f117dcdcf1e2@kernel.org> References: <20251223214037.580860-1-david@kernel.org> <20260115100501.2b956d74aabfe142d37aa608@linux-foundation.org> <84a00b16-0fd3-4a32-bb7a-f117dcdcf1e2@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: 4gxsgty4ahxfy5kahj99a4ytu8xja6a9 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 2AE51140008 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-HE-Tag: 1768510407-506462 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1805cJXkWq9lQTJ632JlMB0w4RkqChm1kKvdvBE61tHxOnyK/DMD8CO13I6QFR0ZzkgPbt978s4PD70lev8+6YDaORStlQmrBPmBMf3qMcYbXaevP9dawIhmcQ5y7+pQAviOrJZC5E92D9EmSEvfoKFuifkWCaDCeUc0LEIMexEbr1GbtPCpfjC5qf5rWScJfjGGjlUjMBBlGjleCjI7HbsHpbNetomdGitThV2SLzRYaOzxqpv6FOC9lRxTwIJ13OymG7ZFR4rbiWRr4ERlXT7/4wCawPr/ulYdnXGabm0b+AzHL2KW4n5vRKWSHGOrhWQaz+XA/MGkEpMPzyPLepcwpfrp0ZjAYDPcK3pjzQQd0Xfig5RDK/GUuwJCFGDv1aH43UmaDaWyXoErEIon8B1OxSqLgbMUzJiYyZvVJfuuyq+95uSTozGewKX3etnsvE0BM7WVdj0FUrD/prI+uFMD9aWHztOZGESROxUe8wJ6RBKzE43gb/vLseqR3iolrMD01VxEaL0BuQ4cLLvzPk1VRmOxVrcZN8beyDWI6HaiFBaDLRNbGXlJb/lf7vnT0ViAoaHbSTONMNOVNGMFEsBpL1seopTEw84ojUnFYGl1qhn+2dTIzbdGxG7UXFr55lFJdSqHEaMkMti4RQU0Af2bMfEvVgvmNMrnTpMxMa2yn55iUl1j5avWKL+ig3bmo52KghH1fOdP7p8DUGtff1OGB59ZhsLpWFYlo9Whs04bPABZIoNM3jwOmCDao862MriPJ9p+MIjyadC25saKfTioNJNga0BKjGc+V3zFRBuK7KtGjRDt66XCteQUcnBtBC8Ow29eb63HJM4R9ubH2dG94pV7UxV8orWbg1B54KxZOQhU25KnEzObnOQat23X44ghqxUNr50DyKlCA56zXQVJoXaboOFoUoJIASRN701LQMdgh9/2WJBcaWDNyjvDonTVvuH63p IEFN8Q+F W+H0W82nuPwcTnwOXNPGLjsOrvkegsad0jBYN04X9ehkYNH2LtuMaHqpLeR0feVNBVkVj5KsFIncXb7vsTah9sJbJoBzgCLz6+3gudAk1WRpwHQStotCqlOtEIXmvgfW791lDtHfmmEBmiit5L2I8x5RR2aPLII+/tz3yJM6VC9pppLAVNKwkhHxiLav0RP3+k6IbYRb9hwNiL9MF4NBnWFpBYFTYdwymlGjfuSiawqnBdZtUGZjL/3La4Wotfm9Y+PUNdMyOMsEVofOElqtpPSaSUJ1fiRAlsav95pbv4+Kp3e4YVJl4bOvF8iAvqZdEmq9yeQv78CLaIBlGvJlk/hb+8bXLjpjoAL1SwMSEpht8mWSompE+7EBCMn/RhKvLDvaOUNUzNrQbfIs0ljGtRek2BQZRh8UO9g7R X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:40:13 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" wrote: > On 1/15/26 19:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:22:30 +0000 Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > > > >> Any update on this series? It's a hotfix series and I don't see it queued > >> up anywhere in either mm-hotfixes-unstable or mm-hotfixes-stable, this > >> issue is causing ongoing problems for a lot of people, is there any reason > >> it's being delayed? > >> > >> It's received extensive approval and testing, so should be GTG right? > > > > This has been in mm-unstable for a long time. As the series had a > > mixture of cc:stable and not-cc:stable patches, I figured we'd merge > > them all into next merge window and let the -stable maintainers figure > > it all out. > > > > As this is more urgent than I believed, we need to figure out what to > > do. > > > > a) Pluck out the two cc:stable patches, merge just those into 6.19-rc. > > > > b) Merge all of them into 6.19-rc, let -stable maintainers figure it out > > Right. We can just CC: stable on comment fixes #2 and #3 to make > back-porting easier. Yep. Seems lame to be backporting comment fixes because real fixes were textually dependent. Also seems lame to retain known-wrong comments in stable kernels! > > > > > > Also, David, where do we stand with > > > > : I'd love to get some generic hugetlb testing on arm64 and powerpc, > > : that do hugetlb TLB flushing stuff a bit more special. > > : > > : I'll try doing some arm64 testing early in the new year myself. > > > > ? > > Not done yet, unfortunately. (I don't (yet) have easy access to decent > arm64 hardware ;) ) > > I still hope that Jann could quickly have a look, but it's been a while > already since I posted v1. OK. It may well have had the hoped-for testing in linux-next, only we didn't hear about it.