From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 13/14] mm/thp: ClearPageDoubleMap in first page_add_file_rmap()
Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 10:45:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220502084554.GA358@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YmrHsVZTEzqIDiKd@kroah.com>
Hi!
> > I've chosen to answer to this patch of my 3 in your 14 AUTOSELs,
> > because this one is just an improvement, not at all a bugfix needed
> > for stable (maybe AUTOSEL noticed "racy" or "safely" in the comments,
> > and misunderstood). The "Fixes" was intended to help any humans who
> > wanted to backport into their trees.
>
> This all was off of the Fixes: tag. Again, if these commits fix
> something why are they not for stable? I'm a human asking to backport
> these into the stable trees based on that :)
I see this as a repeated pattern: People add Fixes: tag for trivial
things that should not really go to stable (typo in comment?) and
stable takes it is a serious bug that needs to be fixed in stable.
Best regards,
Pavel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-02 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-28 15:42 [PATCH AUTOSEL 01/14] mm: fix invalid page pointer returned with FOLL_PIN gups Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 02/14] mm: fix missing cache flush for all tail pages of compound page Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 03/14] mm: hugetlb: fix missing cache flush in copy_huge_page_from_user() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 04/14] mm: hugetlb: fix missing cache flush in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 05/14] mm: shmem: fix missing cache flush in shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 06/14] mm: userfaultfd: fix missing cache flush in mcopy_atomic_pte() and __mcopy_atomic() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 07/14] mm/page_alloc: fetch the correct pcp buddy during bulk free Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 08/14] mm/page_alloc: check high-order pages for corruption during PCP operations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 09/14] mm/hwpoison: fix error page recovered but reported "not recovered" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 10/14] mm/mlock: fix potential imbalanced rlimit ucounts adjustment Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 11/14] mm,migrate: fix establishing demotion target Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 12/14] mm/thp: refix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 13/14] mm/thp: ClearPageDoubleMap in first page_add_file_rmap() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 16:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2022-04-28 16:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-28 19:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2022-04-28 22:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-29 12:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-30 0:27 ` Sasha Levin
2022-05-02 8:45 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2022-04-28 15:42 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 14/14] mm/thp: fix NR_FILE_MAPPED accounting in page_*_file_rmap() Greg Kroah-Hartman
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