From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF72D19DF4A for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2025 18:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741373604; cv=none; b=OsH45VTPwS12BKo00Gfw7Gi4mO5gLMrFwuPiFIqwy4XrgacpVMDQeCoViR6bl8vdtQU2wojCDZfnCitTcTtmN6jUEUBOvHhrhuDBAxkCXXsOcFxlOu93Hr74TyqWMjtyQS6y4W45AtKU6p60XUsPTExz8dUSLbEWeLyK22cedcQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741373604; c=relaxed/simple; bh=f5RaltRUyV+F6beO9e29Vt/4W6TxbtImqz+l8hw5KvE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=I3Wle0HvZ1A1HfKWX2kq/St8hwpyFth+Zki+cLPG9AgVB7N91SXaXupWE34p0mea0QBVCiDiPzkIxrPy7NmOgYTu7xEHA6SereiB2Ki+gCnZ2TQN3y6uh/zpjDot/HDBsWT3+6kXDVRhIKVwaW+UbhGAz35LP0agVEeNb/B+vrs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7D87DC4CED1; Fri, 7 Mar 2025 18:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 18:53:20 +0000 From: Catalin Marinas To: Ryan Roberts Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, agordeev@linux.ibm.com, alexghiti@rivosinc.com, anshuman.khandual@arm.com, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, david@redhat.com, will@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: hugetlb: Add huge page size param to" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree Message-ID: References: <2025030437-specks-impotency-d026@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 03:52:09PM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote: > On 04/03/2025 16:41, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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 . > > From v6.1 it becomes non-trivial to backport this patch as it depends on a patch > that is only present from v6.5; Commit 935d4f0c6dc8 ("mm: hugetlb: add huge page > size param to set_huge_pte_at()"). > > Given this is fixing a theoretical bug for which I'm not aware of any actual > real world triggering, I'm proposing not to backport any further back than v6.6. > I've already sent the backports for v6.13, v6.12 and v6.6. It makes sense to me. Thanks Ryan. -- Catalin