Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] Use asm-generic for mmu_context no-op functions

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Hi Arnd,

On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:01:22 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 1:27 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 00:15:16 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:  
> > > It would be nice to be able to modify mmu_context functions or add a
> > > hook without updating all architectures, many of which will be no-ops.
> > >
> > > The motivation for this series is a change to lazy mmu handling, but
> > > this series stands on its own as a good cleanup whether or not we end
> > > up making that change.
> > >
> > > [...]  
> >
> > Applied to asm-generic, thanks!  
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> I just noticed a fatal mistake I made when pushing it to the branch on
> kernel.org: I used to have both a 'master' and an 'asm-generic' branch
> in asm-generic.git but tried to remove the 'master' one as there is not
> really any point in having two.
> 
> Unfortunately I forgot to check which one of the two was part of
> linux-next, and it was the other one, so none of the patches I picked
> up ever saw any wider testing aside from the 0day bot building it
> (successfully).
> 
> Are there other changes that depend on this? If not, I would
> just wait until -rc1 and then either push the branch correctly or
> rebase the patches on that first, to avoid pushing something that
> did not see the necessary testing.

If it is useful enough (or important enough), then put in in your
linux-next included branch, but don't ask Linus to merge it until the
second week of the merge window ... no worse than some other stuff I
see :-(

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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