From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, aarcange@redhat.com,
hughd@google.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, mgorman@suse.de,
riel@redhat.com, mhocko@suse.cz, jannh@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, srivatsab@vmware.com,
srivatsa@csail.mit.edu, amakhalov@vmware.com,
srinidhir@vmware.com, bvikas@vmware.com, srostedt@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Backported fixes for 4.4 stable tree
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 18:57:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190801165705.GA29730@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190724120627.GF3244@kroah.com>
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 02:06:27PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 04:38:23PM +0530, Ajay Kaher wrote:
> > These patches include few backported fixes for the 4.4 stable
> > tree.
> > I would appreciate if you could kindly consider including them in the
> > next release.
>
> Why are these needed? From what I remember, the last patch here is only
> needed for machines that are "HUGE" and for those, you shouldn't be
> using 4.4.y anymore anyway, right? You just end up saving so much more
> speed and energy using a newer kernel, why would you want to waste it
> using an older one?
>
> So I need a really good reason why to accept these :)
It's been a week, so I'm dropping this from my queue now. Please resend
with this information if you still want these in the tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-01 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-23 11:08 [PATCH 0/8] Backported fixes for 4.4 stable tree Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper function Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: handle PTE-mapped tail pages in gerneric fast gup implementaiton Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm, gup: remove broken VM_BUG_ON_PAGE compound check for hugepages Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm, gup: ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] pipe: add pipe_buf_get() helper Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get Ajay Kaher
2019-07-24 12:06 ` [PATCH 0/8] Backported fixes for 4.4 stable tree Greg KH
2019-08-01 16:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
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