netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/8] bpf: Follow up to RCU enforcement in the verifier.

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Message-ID: <20230405111926.7930dbcc@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 5 Apr 2023 11:19:26 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...nel.org>,
        Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@...a.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...a.com>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/8] bpf: Follow up to RCU enforcement in the
 verifier.

On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 10:22:16 -0700 Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> So I'm exclusively using `pw-apply -c <patchworks-url>` to apply
> everything locally.

I think you can throw -M after -c $url? It can only help... :)

> I'd expect that at this time the script would
> detect any Acked-by replies on *cover letter patch*, and apply them
> across all patches in the series. Such that we (humans) can look at
> them, fix them, add them, etc. Doing something like this in git hook
> seems unnecessary?

Maybe mb2q can do it, IDK. I don't use the mb2q thing.
I don't think git has a way of doing git am and insert these tags if
they don't exist, in a single command.

> So I think the only thing that's missing is the code that would fetch
> all replies on the cover letter "patch" (e.g., like on [0]) and just
> apply it across everything. We must be doing something like this for
> acks on individual patches, so I imagine we are not far off to make
> this work, but I haven't looked at pw-apply carefully enough to know
> for sure.

The individual patches are handled by patchwork.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not disagreeing with you. Just trying to help
and point out existing workarounds..