Re: linux-next: manual merge of the slab tree with the rcu tree

Harry Yoo <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 07:23:27 +0000
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-next,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <anBBhmBSwLgcLjht@dev>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 03:01:37PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 11:14:42PM +0200, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > I like Nathan's fix as well.

I don't really have a strong preference  this, and it would be
appropriate to fix this in a way Rust folks would prefer...

> > Not sure if it needs to be done in the merge commit, or if we can
> > apply it as a patch to char-misc despite the unknown CFG_*?
> 
> It would need to be applied at the merge of the two trees because
> CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED was introduced back in 6.15 in commit
> c9f8f1242a4c ("slab: don't batch kvfree_rcu() with SLUB_TINY").

What do we do when it needs to be fixed in the merge commit,
mention this in the pull request email?

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Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon