Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] mm/hugetlb: Early cow on fork, and a few cleanups

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 06:32:08 EST


On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:47 PM Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As Jason and Wei pointed out, I think some userspace still got corrupted data
> without this series when using hugetlb backend. I don't think it'll suite for
> a late RC release but it'll still be great if it can be considered as an early
> rc candidate, ideally rc1 of course. If you prefer the other way, I can also
> repost it before 5.13 merge window opens.

I think with my merge window delay issue, you guys have the perfect
excuse for pushing it a bit late and it still hitting 5.12

Linus