Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/191] 5.4.8-stable review

Guenter Roeck
2020-01-03T15:48:54Z

On 1/3/20 7:29 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:03 PM Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 03:42, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
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>> -ENOENT is what you get when hugetlbfs is not mounted, so this hints to
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>> 8fc312b32b2 mm/hugetlbfs: fix error handling when setting up mounts
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>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.4.y&id=3f549fb42a39bea3b29c0fc12afee53c4a01bec9
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> I see that Mike Kravetz suggested not putting this patch into stable in
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> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/befca227-cb8a-8f47-617d-e3bf9972bfec@oracle.com/
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> but it was picked through the autosel mechanism later.
>

I think autosel is way too aggressive. This is an excellent example.

Guenter