Re: [PATCH v5 00/16] mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff

On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 10:01:19AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 11:53:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > You'll be mortified to hear that Sashiko wasn't able to find anything
> > to which to apply this.
> 
> :))
> 
> Well, when it's right it's useful, when it's wrong or suggesting unrelated
> what-nots it's less useful :>)
> 
> I do locally put things through claude + Chris Mason's prompts a lot, I
> don't always invoke local sashiko as it's very slow and token-heavy or has
> been so far, but am planning to do that more also in future.
> 
> >
> > Sashiko can be guided with a base-commit: tag but I'm not sure how to
> > tell it what tree/branch to try, or even if that's necessary.  Perhaps
> > someone can figure this out sometime.
> 
> b4 gives a base commit, but I think because the trees are rebased it ends
> up being the incorrect one.

It's not only that the tree is rebased, but also that mm-unstable carries
the previous version of the patches.

> Not sure what the solution is!
> 
> --
> Cheers, Lorenzo

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.