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

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 17-01-17 17:28:25, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Was the Fixes tag the reason to pick it up?

It made me pay a bit more attention to it, yes.  I search for that and
other keywords, in the git log to see if there are patches that need to
be backported where people forget to add the stable tags.  I have to do
this because some subsystems still never set them :(

thanks,

greg k-h