From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Hrubis Subject: Re: Possible bug - LTP failure for memcg Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:36:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20150514123628.GA7300@rei> References: <55536DC9.90200@kyup.com> <20150514092145.GA6799@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20150514092301.GB6799@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20150514103542.GB5066@rei.suse.de> <20150514113101.GD6799@dhcp22.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150514113101.GD6799-2MMpYkNvuYDjFM9bn6wA6Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: cgroups-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michal Hocko Cc: cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, hannes-druUgvl0LCNAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org, linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, Nikolay Borisov Hi! > > That would fail on older kernels without the patch, woudln't it? > > Yes it will. I thought those would be using some stable release (I do > not have much idea about the release process of ltp...). You are > definitely right that a backward compatible way is better. I will cook > up a patch later today. The thing is that we do not have manpower to backport fixes to stable releases. So the latest stable release is always recomended for testing and because of that we have to fix testcases in backward compatible way. -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org