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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub/memcg: Cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes
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On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This should be rewritten proper by adding a propagate() callback to those
> slub_attributes which must be propagated and avoid that insane conversion
> to and from ASCII

Exactly..

>, but that's too large for a hot fix.

What made this such a hot fix?  Looks like this crap has been in
for quite a while.