Re: [GIT PULL] Kmap conversions for 5.12
From: David Sterba
Date: Thu Feb 25 2021 - 08:16:01 EST
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 09:59:12AM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 01:30:49PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:25:06AM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:
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> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 09:13:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:03 AM David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Sorry. I will change it.
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> Let me know how you want to proceed with the patchset/pull request.
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To be clear I'd like to just drop the 2 patches which use zero_user() for this
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merge window.
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I've already submitted some additional btrfs changes for 5.13[1]. I can rework
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these zero_user() patches and submit them through Andrew for 5.13 as separate
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set. That is what I meant by 'I will change it'.
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> I
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> can play the messenger again but now it seems a round of review is
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> needed and with some testing it'll be possible in some -rc. At that
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> point you may take the patches via the mm tree, unless Linus is ok with
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> a late pull.
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I'm ok with delaying the memzero_page() change to 5.13. There are a lot of
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kmap changes to come. But I'm trying to do them as smaller series just for
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this reason. I don't want valid changes to be denied due to my messing up just
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a few patches... :-( Hopefully you and Linus can forgive me on this one.
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Is ok to just drop them and merge the rest of this series in 5.12?
Ok, no problem. Please let me know exactly which patches to drop, I'll
respin the branch. Thanks.