linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Kmap conversions for 5.12

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Message-ID: <20210225131252.GA7604@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:12:52 +0100
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kmap conversions for 5.12

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 09:59:12AM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 01:30:49PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:25:06AM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 09:13:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:03 AM David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Sorry.  I will change it.
> > 
> > Let me know how you want to proceed with the patchset/pull request.
> 
> To be clear I'd like to just drop the 2 patches which use zero_user() for this
> merge window.
> 
> I've already submitted some additional btrfs changes for 5.13[1].  I can rework
> these zero_user() patches and submit them through Andrew for 5.13 as separate
> set.  That is what I meant by 'I will change it'.
> 
> > I
> > can play the messenger again but now it seems a round of review is
> > needed and with some testing it'll be possible in some -rc. At that
> > point you may take the patches via the mm tree, unless Linus is ok with
> > a late pull.
> 
> I'm ok with delaying the memzero_page() change to 5.13.  There are a lot of
> kmap changes to come.  But I'm trying to do them as smaller series just for
> this reason.  I don't want valid changes to be denied due to my messing up just
> a few patches...  :-(  Hopefully you and Linus can forgive me on this one.
> 
> Is ok to just drop them and merge the rest of this series in 5.12?

Ok, no problem. Please let me know exactly which patches to drop, I'll
respin the branch. Thanks.