Re: Patch "mm: fix remote numa hits statistics" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 05:21:44PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 17-01-17 17:13:03, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     mm: fix remote numa hits statistics
> > 
> > to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      mm-fix-remote-numa-hits-statistics.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> 
> It is not marked for stable so why it has been chosen?

I found it by digging through the git commit logs.

> Me or Andrew would have marked it for stable if it was needed. In fact
> I do not really thing it is necessary. It fixes counters which haven't
> been accurate for quite some time and nobody has noticed.

Ok, that's fair enough, I'll go drop it from the tree.

thanks,

greg k-h