Re: [PATCH] slub: assign refcount for kmalloc_caches

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-14T19:23:42Z

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 04:52:54PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:47:39PM -0800, Paul Hargrove wrote:
> > I just had a look at patch-3.7.2-rc1, and this change doesn't appear to
> > have made it in yet.
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > -Paul
>
> I try to check it.
> Ccing to Greg.
>
> Hello, Pekka and Greg.
>
> v3.8-rcX has already fixed by another stuff, but it is not simple change.
> So I made a new patch and sent it.
>
> How this kind of patch (only for stable v3.7) go into stable tree?
> through Pekka's slab tree? or send it to Greg, directly?
>
> I don't know how to submit this kind of patch to stable tree exactly.
> Could anyone help me?

Please redo it, and send it to stable@vger.kernel.org, and say exactly
why it isn't in Linus's tree, and that it should only be applied to
3.7-stable.

thanks,

greg k-h