Re: [GIT PULL] Kmap conversions for 5.12

From: David Sterba
Date: Thu Feb 25 2021 - 08:16:01 EST


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@xxxxxxxx> 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.