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

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Thu Mar 04 2021 - 12:11:48 EST


On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 06:45:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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

Andrew did you need something further from Peter? I don't see it in linux-next?

Jason