linux-kernel - Re: incoming

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Message-ID: <20190717085758.GA2025@ArchLinux>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:27:58 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Subject: Re: incoming



Cool !! 

On 10:47 Wed 17 Jul , Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>On 7/17/19 1:25 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> Most of the rest of MM and just about all of the rest of everything
>> else.
>
>Hi,
>
>as I've mentioned at LSF/MM [1], I think it would be nice if mm pull
>requests had summaries similar to other subsystems. I see they are now
>more structured (thanks!), but they are now probably hitting the limit
>of what scripting can do to produce a high-level summary for human
>readers (unless patch authors themselves provide a blurb that can be
>extracted later?).
>
>So I've tried now to provide an example what I had in mind, below. Maybe
>it's too concise - if there were "larger" features in this pull request,
>they would probably benefit from more details. I'm CCing the known (to
>me) consumers of these mails to judge :) Note I've only covered mm, and
>core stuff that I think will be interesting to wide audience (change in
>LIST_POISON2 value? I'm sure as hell glad to know about that one :)
>
>Feel free to include this in the merge commit, if you find it useful.
>
>Thanks,
>Vlastimil
>
>[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/787705/
>
>-----
>
>- z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool
>- more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao
>- fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
>Christoph Hellwig
>- !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig
>- new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by Kairui Song
>- new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc initialization,
>by Alexander Potapenko
>- ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual
>- generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual
>- device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin
>- enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V
>- add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy
>- unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan
>- several misc fixes
>
>core/lib
>- new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan
>- make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada
>- changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better code
>generation, by Alexey Dobriyan
>- rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse
>- convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes
>
>get_maintainer.pl
>- add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches
>
>

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