• [$] The role of LLMs in patch review

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Wed Apr 1 06:40:09 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.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1064830/
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