From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tao Cui <cui.tao@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
roman.gushchin@linux.dev, muchun.song@linux.dev,
Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_counter: reject empty string in page_counter_memparse()
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:42:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260829174220.204771edba7c52511dc08641@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aoVUlFdZYLFn_gvJ@tiehlicka>
On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:36 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> > Whether that benefit outweighs the compatibility risk is not mine to
> > decide.
>
> And I am still not convinced. I do understand your frustration from the
> debugging the issue. In any way, if other maintainers decide this change
> is worth I will not stand in the way.
Shakeel seems OK with it. Other other maintainers are being aloof ;)
I'll queue it for now, along with a note that additional poking is
needed.
A v2 would be nice, please. Add details about that production incident
and make the requested update to
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-30 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-17 4:26 [PATCH] mm: page_counter: reject empty string in page_counter_memparse() Tao Cui
2026-08-17 16:16 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-08-18 7:45 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-18 15:06 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-08-18 16:43 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-19 3:00 ` Tao Cui
2026-08-19 7:00 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-30 0:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2026-08-30 0:53 ` Shakeel Butt
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