From: SeongJae Park <sj@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>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] mm/hugetlb: ignore hugepage kernel args if hugepages are unsupported
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:30:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251223013045.4579-1-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251221104907.032abf56c67f3e50c9c94e31@linux-foundation.org>
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
Thanks,
SJ
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-21 5:36 [PATCH v6] mm/hugetlb: ignore hugepage kernel args if hugepages are unsupported Sourabh Jain
2025-12-21 5:59 ` Ritesh Harjani
2025-12-21 9:22 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-21 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2025-12-23 1:30 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2025-12-23 2:30 ` Andrew Morton
2025-12-23 11:43 ` Sasha Levin
2025-12-23 16:54 ` Andrew Morton
2025-12-23 17:11 ` Sasha Levin
2025-12-22 3:12 ` Ritesh Harjani
2025-12-22 5:57 ` Sourabh Jain
2025-12-22 10:28 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-22 10:54 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2025-12-23 5:48 ` Sourabh Jain
2025-12-22 5:39 ` Sourabh Jain
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