linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v18 00/12] Support page table check on PowerPC

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Message-ID: <ba35672820c2fbad2611a0a89b3cb60125776f9b.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:13:42 +1100
From: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@...nel.org>,
        Pasha Tatashin	
 <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Madhavan Srinivasan	 <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Rohan McLure	 <rmclure@...dia.com>, Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>,
        x86@...nel.org, Nicholas Miehlbradt
 <nicholas@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@...miny.me>,
        Andrew Donnellan	 <andrew+kernel@...nellan.id.au>,
        Srish Srinivasan
 <ssrish@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 00/12] Support page table check on PowerPC

On Thu, 2026-01-15 at 16:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:13:26 +1100 Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2026-01-14 at 10:34 +0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
> > > What is the merge plan ? I see all powerpc commits are acked by Maddy, 
> > > will the series be merged by Andrew into the mm tree ?
> > 
> > This is what I was expecting - this revision is rebased on mm-new as it
> > stood
> > around when I sent it.
> 
> Ouch, sorry, I did not understand this.  So we've lost 4 weeks testing :(
> 
> The core MM and ARM changes are trival, in the if-it-compiles-it-works
> category.  Is the mm tree really the best place for this?  It'll get
> more testing in the powerpc tree?
> 
> But if you're OK with it, I'm OK with it.
> 
> > By the way it doesn't apply on top of powerpc/merge branch:
> 
> I guess we'll be hearing from Mark when this hits linux-next. 
> Hopefully the resolution isn't horrible.
> 
> As I'm adding this to mm.git's mm-new branch, Mark won't actually be
> seeing it.  I'll aim to move this into mm-unstable (and hence
> linux-next) after just a single day.

Thanks, sorry for the confusion! *Hopefully* 18th time's the charm...


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Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@...ux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited