From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:25:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20200310172114-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20200310113854.11515-1-david@redhat.com> <890da35b-1ac2-9c2e-b42d-96d24d3e0f4c@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <890da35b-1ac2-9c2e-b42d-96d24d3e0f4c@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jason Wang , Stephen Rothwell , Tyler Sanderson , Wei Wang , Alexander Duyck , Nadav Amit , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:13:19PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > Should this have: > > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+ > > I guess as nothing will actually "crash" it's not worth stable. No - it's a regression, it would be a stable candidate from that POV. The issue is the patch size - stable rules say: - It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context. This is about 200 lines with context. In practice Fixes: is enough to make a bunch of downstreams pick it up. -- MST