From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Thorsten Diehl <thorsten.diehl@de.ibm.com>,
Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] /proc/stat vs. failed order-4 allocation
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:15:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140625061551.GA4260@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406241650340.22030@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 04:52:22PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:10:58 +0200 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:29:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > I'm unclear on how urgent these fixes are. I semi-randomly tagged them
> > > > for 3.16 with a -stable backport, but that could be changed?
> > >
> > > I assume tagged for 3.16 means you intend to get it merged before 3.16
> > > gets released?
> > > If so, then that would be fine with me.
> >
> > um, actually, no, sorry, I meant merge for 3.17-rc1 with a -stable backport.
> >
> > We can do 3.16 of course, but for what reasons?
>
> Heiko's patches should also fix
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1319244 as reported
> by Stefan Bader. I've pinged them to determine if there is any other
> issues with -mm.
The other distribution where this has been seen was RHEL7 (on s390).
FWIW, I thought there was a 'rule' that patches with a -stable tag shouldn't
stay in -next for a couple of rc releases. But then again that probably was
just a discussion somewhere.
Anyway, if neither Stefan or Ian speak up I'm fine with post 3.16 as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-25 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-16 9:04 [PATCH 0/2] /proc/stat vs. failed order-4 allocation Heiko Carstens
2014-06-16 9:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] proc/stat: convert to single_open_size() Heiko Carstens
2014-06-18 23:28 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-16 9:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation Heiko Carstens
2014-06-18 23:31 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-18 21:29 ` [PATCH 0/2] /proc/stat vs. failed order-4 allocation Andrew Morton
2014-06-21 9:10 ` Heiko Carstens
2014-06-23 23:04 ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-24 23:52 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-25 6:15 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2014-06-26 2:20 ` Ian Kent
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