On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 05:28:02AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 10:09:15PM -0400, Liam R. Howlett wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [250814 21:02]: > > > Well, can we have this as a standalone thing, rather than as a > > > modification to a patch whose future is uncertain? > > > > > > Then we can just drop "testing/radix-tree/maple: hack around kfree_rcu > > > not existing", yes? > > > > > > Some expansion of "fixes the build for the VMA userland tests" would be > > > helpful. > > > > Ah, this is somewhat messy. > > > > Pedro removed unnecessary rcu calls with the newer slab reality as you > > can directly call kfree instead of specifying the kmem_cache. > > > > But the patch is partially already in Vlastimil's sheaves work and we'd > > like his work to go through his branch, so the future of this particular > > patch is a bit messy. > > > > Maybe we should just drop the related patches that caused the issue from > > the mm-new branch? That way we don't need a fix at all. > > > > And when Vlastimil is around, we can get him to pick up the set > > including the fix. > > > > Doing things this way will allow Vlastimil the avoid conflicts on > > rebase, and restore the userspace testing in mm-new. > > > > Does that make sense to everyone? > > Sounds good to me, I didn't realise that both the original series at [0]) > (which introduced the test fail) and the follow up at [1] were intended to > be dropped, I thought only [1] but dropping [0] obviously also fixes it! > > And it looks like Andrew's done so and tests now fully working in mm-new > again so I'm happy :) OK this isn't the case. Can you clarify that you want to drop [0] and explicitly reply there asking Andrew to drop it just so all is certain? Because right now VMA tests are still broken in mm-new :( > > Cheers, Lorenzo > > [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250718172138.103116-1-pfalcato@xxxxxxx/ > [1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250812162124.59417-1-pfalcato@xxxxxxx/ Thanks, Lorenzo
