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Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Harry Yoo , Jann Horn , Lance Yang , Zi Yan , Matthew Brost , Joshua Hahn , Byungchul Park , Gregory Price , Ying Huang , Alistair Popple , Baolin Wang , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Usama Arif , Kiryl Shutsemau , Xu Xin , Chengming Zhou , Madhavan Srinivasan , Nicholas Piggin , Michael Ellerman , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" , Shrikanth Hegde , Pedro Falcato , Kairui Song , Qi Zheng , Shakeel Butt , Axel Rasmussen , Yuanchu Xie , Wei Xu , Baoquan He , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Leon Romanovsky , SJ Park , Rakie Kim , David Rientjes , Alexander Viro , Christian Brauner , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Namhyung Kim , Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Ian Rogers , Adrian Hunter , James Clark , Masami Hiramatsu , Oleg Nesterov , John Johansen , Georgia Garcia , Paul Moore , James Morris , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Mimi Zohar , Roberto Sassu , Dmitry Kasatkin , Eric Snowberg , Fan Wu , Stephen Smalley , Ondrej =?UTF-8?Q?Mosn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek?= , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] mm: continue vma_flags_t conversion Message-Id: <20261109095033.ed2b0334c862ca832389ea7d@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20261105-late-2026-vma-flags-v1-0-0d3cd15ab75f@kernel.org> <1c0b1368-a381-4b25-bba9-7a4f8e92b764@kernel.org> <93fef824-9f60-4940-9ee6-80c9c8e3f945@kernel.org> <20261109094434.d23a227a869e76455ddff3b1@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 9 Nov 2026 18:48:07 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > On 11/9/26 18:44, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2026 14:40:48 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > > > >> On 11/7/26 21:09, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > >>> I think we're slightly talking across purposes, so to be clear - I am totally > >>> fine with you taking any of this through your tree or whatever works for you and > >>> Andrew to avoid merge pain :) > >>> > >>> I was just talking more generally about how to merge series that touch a lot of > >>> subsystems and maintainers-who-may-never-reply, etc. > >>> > >>> These are the edge cases that make things... fun :) > >>> > >>> Anyway, I guess easiest resolution here is for you to take the bits that belong > >>> to your trees and Andrew takes the bits that belong elsewhere? > >> > >> Yes, that's what I did now, applying #1,#3,#4,#5,#6 > > > > Cool. > > > > I'll remove the whole series from mm.git immediately for > > collision-avoidance reasons - let's sort things out later. > > The mm-next merge today still worked (minor conflict on #7 due to one > unnecessary ksm.c hunk I commented on), so you could have likely just kept all > but the above patches. OK, I'll take a look at re-adding things... > > > > I'll get better/more accurate about this soon - I need to set up > > infrastructure to fetch everyone else's trees, do test merges and > > figure out what should be removed/fixed in mm.git. I might just base > > mm.git on everyone-else and always route its stuff ->david. I need to > > spend a bit of time on this and discuss with the mm-next peeps. > > Ack! ...once this is in place!