On (24/02/22 21:05), Yosry Ahmed wrote: > > > > These are not in 6.8.0-rc5 anyway, right? > > > > > > I see them in next-20240223, which seems to be 6.8-rc6 (according to > > ^ -rc5 > > > > But they look more or less correct to me, so I'm not blaming those > > patches. We should be protected by pool->look. Bisection would help > > us a lot, I think. > > Andrew picked up those patches in mm-unstable, which is included in > linux-next at some point IIUC, but the patches there don't all end up > in the next rc unless I am misunderstanding something here. These > patches should be headed to v6.9 AFAICT. > > Actually, if I am not mistaken the patches were sent *after* v.6.8-rc5 > was out, and it's not common for non-fixes to make it into rc releases > anyway, right? Oh, sorry, I realized that we talked about different 6.8-rc5. I talked about linux-next, not Linus's tree. You are absolutely right, those patches are not in Linus's 6.8-rc5 and are headed to 6.9, yes.