Re: [PATCH v6] mm/hugetlb: ignore hugepage kernel args if hugepages are unsupported

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	"David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>,
	"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
	Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] mm/hugetlb: ignore hugepage kernel args if hugepages are unsupported
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:43:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aUqAcf2405H0pRW1@laps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251222183055.88c3cc1f0705c1dc29c7f011@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 06:30:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:30:44 -0800 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:49:07 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:22:44 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > >
>> > > > My main concern was -
>> > > > A fixes tag means it might get auto backported to stable kernels too,
>> > >
>> > > Not in the MM world -- IIRC. I think there is the agreement, that we
>> > > decide what should go into stable and what not.
>> > >
>> > > Andrew can correct me if my memory is wrong.
>> >
>> > Yes, -stable maintainers have been asked to only backport patches where
>> > the MM developers asked for that, with cc:stable.  There may be
>> > slipups, but as far as I know this is working.
>> >
>> > I don't actually know how they determine which patches need this
>> > special treatment.  Pathname?  Signed-off-by:akpm?
>>
>> I guess it is pathname, based on ignore_list file [1] of stable-queue repo.
>>
>> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list#n16
>>
>
>Oh, that's a bit sad.
>
>- other trees sometimes mess with mm/ and they probably aren't aware
>  that they need an explicit cc:stable.
>
>- misses drivers/block/zram and probably various other things that
>  the MM team maintains.
>
>Oh well, I guess simple mm/* coverage is good enough.  But I do worry a
>little that useful fixes coming into mm/ via other trees without
>cc:stable will get missed.

How should we improve the filter? mm/ AND signed off by akpm?

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Thanks,
Sasha