Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios

Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-25T15:33:00Z

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 08:30:16AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:06:26 +0000 "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > > > Sorry unclear here - does the series need more work or does a follow up patch
> > > > need more work?
> > >
> > > Follow up!
> >
> > Ok good as in mm-stable now. Sadly means I don't get to review it but there we
> > go.
>
> Well, this was sent 6 weeks ago, at v6!

Yup I know, I've struggled to clear my backlog.

>
> But please go ahead. If review is very bad, there's git-rebase
> (happens sometimes) or some followup fix and a minor bisection hole
> (happens a bit more often).
>
> And those followup fixes will trickle in all the way out to 7.1-rc7,
> via the hotfixes path. This happens a great deal - about half(?) of
> hotfixes pertain to material we added in the current -rc cycle.
>

Well given the other tags it's unlikely that would happen, so it doesn't feel
really worthwhile at this point.

Really I guess I'd like to know the timing of when mm-stable is taken so I can
know the deadline for stuff like this.

Thanks, Lorenzo