From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF6371C84DC for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2026 06:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780469333; cv=none; b=GAuUhgh1xMC+DLf7jmyGbyHhwhSSwrsqZ+8SfwY0FOwxgJzs6g5KnAs5IWmtZF+C0wau/UPWpJi7dNA5ZyNy0g9E6eULGfjrq7tXY1YGmzA5dJFRuMOwnLNrNR5hC2YBYqohm8HdWoOMOlKDOJMVYB43fOT6yT5sUjyDjEY08Ho= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780469333; c=relaxed/simple; bh=LcuAT1aC0ATvY2byCd1yff80F4IhfpxST6D7LJ5wPWc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=qzvbxtb/oMkk8K0DbGx7TNnVY40hGAaYB86khMCZGSoCgQFviAUZ0OXnt0TjZV2bWguquPdJfhklKaaUg97Lei6ex04Tw4+bm/MMmG5DQWcTJXU9G4P9GrnCimPk3sA4t/zXZd7s7toft5RFvnLPwEiK5jnanU/RLmhIubHDcXk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=QnpXFy7a; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="QnpXFy7a" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96F991F00893; Wed, 3 Jun 2026 06:48:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1780469332; bh=FhhjVRzGCjFY/Egn1KMYz0zdmpIRkyGKHL7Dp3fm2yY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=QnpXFy7aOSx4c0XwXqxUl1o0P5o3SE9r8bxWY1wRf8Zs+p/gque9RJoVdI26q9nja cuTDokjyXVrrunlcqqUNZ52+x/JuTP2/njAvYd8pXhbqxZ9jetcB9dYXxxsKoOkxUE iEkY37Rb4ALMhUvCXYJAPrWaWuwGZy2IlEsXp100tdNvMlEQgVYwQJSAWfrryznti2 CHcz0XyHtDXufFQYxEcpoiLz4/700CFweiPXcTolNTc9z+qbCJmoNBlZ3WC0mW0DIJ IcoUzM9AFvCJBp1JGeGQBZyQcDkQgsKl1ZRJ673FULXczC0vHuIweUcz6BqPH0V4LU zWNVF13v0UKrQ== Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 07:48:46 +0100 From: Lorenzo Stoakes To: Mike Rapoport Cc: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" , "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Nico Pache , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, liam@infradead.org, mhocko@suse.com, vbabka@suse.cz, willy@infradead.org Subject: Re: Process (was Re: [PATCH mm-hotfixes-unstable v18 00/14] khugepaged: add mTHP) collapse support Message-ID: References: <506fed6b-8954-40fa-8b5e-c8bd8c0d004b@kernel.org> <07334dc3-79ba-407e-96be-21ceb2eec00a@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 08:31:42PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > * Supposing we keep the model of early merging for testing [Lorenzo, don't > yell at me ;-)] I think it's reasonable enough to drop everything that's > not going upstream at, say, rc6 and ask contributors to rinse and repeat > after rc1. I won't yell :) but I really don't want us to do this, and to improve our testing locally. Because: - We've become a bit notorious for breaking linux-next - It makes it more difficult for us to yank things - It blurs the line between the stable branch (which in the new model we will be updating constantly rather than right at the end) and some 'unknown state' of 'whatever we just sent to linux-next'. Cheers, Lorenzo