On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 5:24 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 13:33:26 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was hoping we could re-enable VMA locks in 6.4 once we get more > > confirmations that the problem is gone. Is that not possible once the > > BROKEN dependency is merged? > > I think "no". By doing this we're effectively backporting a minor > performance optimization, which isn't a thing we'd normally do. In that case, maybe for 6.4 we send the fix and only disable it by default without marking BROKEN? That way we still have a way to enable it if desired? >
