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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:54:39 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/ksm: Fix incorrect KSM counter handling in
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:14:47 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 16:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:33:04 +0530 Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> []
> > > Fixes: 7609385337a4 ("ksm: count ksm merging pages for each process")
> > 
> > Linux-v5.19
> > 
> > > Fixes: cb4df4cae4f2 ("ksm: count allocated ksm rmap_items for each process")
> > 
> > Linux-v6.1
> > 
> > > Fixes: e2942062e01d ("ksm: count all zero pages placed by KSM")
> > 
> > Linux-v6.10
> > 
> > > cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.6
> > 
> > So how was Linux-v6.6 arrived at?
> []
> > (Cc Joe.  Should checkpatch say something about this)?
> 
> Probably not. Parsing variants of versions seems, umm, difficult.

I was thinking simpler.  If the Fixes: count exceeds one, ask
"wtf are you asking of the -stable maintainers"?