[$] The role of LLMs in patch review
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March 31, 2026
Discussion of
a memory-management patch set intended to clean up a helper function for handling huge pages spiraled into something else entirely after it was posted on March 19. Memory-management maintainer Andrew Morton
proposed making changes to the subsystem's review process, to require patch authors to respond to feedback from Sashiko, the
recently released LLM-based kernel patch review system. Other sub-maintainers, particularly Lorenzo Stoakes, objected. The resulting discussion about how and when to adopt Sashiko is potentially relevant to many other parts of the kernel.
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