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Date:   Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:38:20 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
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        Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        William Roche <william.roche@oracle.com>, ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: Backport d4ae9916ea29 ("mm: soft-offline: close the race against
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 01:10:07PM +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wonder if there was an attempt to backport d4ae9916ea29 ("mm: soft-offline:
> close the race against page allocation") from 4.19 to 4.14 and 4.9 (patch does
> not apply, haven't found anything on stable ML, nor in stable tree git,
> therefore I assume it was left as not easily fixable).

As it didn't apply, why not try creating a backport to test this
yourself?  I'll gladly accept such a thing into the trees if you make
it.

thanks,

greg k-h