Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] virtio_balloon: fix shrinker count" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:23:59PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 06:44:42PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> > 
> > From c9a6820fc0da2603be3054ee7590eb9f350508a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:02:33 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: fix shrinker count
> > 
> > Instead of multiplying by page order, virtio balloon divided by page
> > order. The result is that it can return 0 if there are a bit less
> > than MAX_ORDER - 1 pages in use, and then shrinker scan won't be called.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: 71994620bb25 ("virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker")
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> 
> I think that the fixes tag should be pointing to 86a559787e6f
> ("virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT"), and this commit
> isn't needed on 4.19.

I believe you are right but don't see a way to fix that as the patch is
upstream.

> -- 
> Thanks,
> Sasha