linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.17 0/3] mm/mremap: allow multi-VMA move for huge folio, find ineligible earlier

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Message-ID: <7644f347-f010-4c48-b830-e88a05953967@lucifer.local>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:32:33 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.17 0/3] mm/mremap: allow multi-VMA move for huge folio,
 find ineligible earlier

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 09:01:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun,  3 Aug 2025 12:11:20 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> > Subject: [PATCH 6.17 0/3] mm/mremap: allow multi-VMA move for huge folio, find ineligible earlier
>
> I missed this series until just now, because the Subject: innovation
> fooled me.
>
> My pattern recognizer saw "[PATCH 6.17 ..." and said "that's an LTS
> patch".  Because that's precisely what they do.  By the million.
>
> I can't say I find this change valuable, really.
>
> Now wondering which other patches I missed.

Yes sorry, just wanted to highlight it as hotfix and it seemed sensible (at the
time)...