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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2023 14:43:44 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] x86/percpu: Use segment qualifiers
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc:     Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 12:43, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> So we could do this: we let it live in -tip for a cycle, in a separate
> branch, and observe what happens - it gets picked up by -next on
> a daily basis and most x86 developers test it. It won't be merged by other
> branches in -tip, it won't be pulled by others or relied on. If it
> conflicts with other bits we rebase it cleanly, no questions asked.

Sounds like a plan,

              Linus