linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix MA_STATE

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Message-Id: <20250616162404.9f37908a11f5bd46f2362fb9@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:24:04 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
Cc: maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org, Suren Baghdasaryan
 <surenb@...gle.com>, Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Hailong
 Liu <hailong.liu@...o.com>, zhangpeng.00@...edance.com, Steve Kang
 <Steve.Kang@...soc.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Sidhartha
 Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix MA_STATE_PREALLOC issue

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:45:18 -0400 "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com> wrote:

> Address the issue of reusing the same maple state for multiple
> preallocations calls caused by MA_STATE_PREALLOC, and add a test for
> this use case.
> 
> Included is a change to the testing code to reduce false positives in
> the rcu race testing on faster machines.

I split this series into

- a standalone fix for 6.16-rcX and -stable.

- two standalone selftests patches for 6.17-rc1.

Is that OK?