Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:45:35 -0700

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On Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:57:55 -0700 Stanislav Kinsburskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> > > I rebased this series on top of mm-new right before sending it out.
> > > Should I have used a different branch?
> > 
> > mm-new is good - Sashiko attempts that.  But it's changing rapidly at
> > this point in the development cycle.
> > 
> 
> I’d like to send another revision addressing a few comments and also
> replace the `max/max_t` check with something simpler.
> 
> Which branch should I base it on so that Sashiko can apply it
> successfully?

mainline Linus would be safest.

> Or would it be better to send fixups against `mm-new`?

That should work as well, but it doesn't give us a Sashiko scan of the
whole patchset.