From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f170.google.com (mail-pd0-f170.google.com [209.85.192.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0776B006E for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:26:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pdbqa5 with SMTP id qa5so69862497pdb.1 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com. [66.111.4.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o6si18180030pap.60.2015.04.08.13.26.43 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07979208A9 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:26:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:26:38 +0200 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 @stable] mm(v4.0): New pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP Message-ID: <20150408202638.GB10865@kroah.com> References: <55239645.9000507@plexistor.com> <55254FC4.3050206@plexistor.com> <552550A5.6040503@plexistor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <552550A5.6040503@plexistor.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Stable Tree , Dave Chinner , Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Jan Kara , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm , linux-fsdevel , Eryu Guan , Christoph Hellwig On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:00:37PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 04/08/2015 06:56 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > From: Yigal Korman > > > > [For Stable 4.0.X] > > The parallel patch at 4.1-rc1 to this patch is: > > Subject: mm: new pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP > > > > We need this patch for the 4.0.X stable tree if the patch > > Subject: dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime + freeze protection > > > > Was decided to be pulled into stable since it is a dependency > > of this patch. The file mm/memory.c was heavily changed in 4.1 > > hence this here. > > > > I forgot to send this patch for the stables tree, 4.0 only. > > Again this one is only needed if we are truing to pull > Subject: dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime + freeze protection > > Which has the Stable@ tag. The problem it fixes is minor and might > be skipped if causes problems. I can't take patches in the stable tree that are not in Linus's tree also. Why can't I just take a corrisponding patch that is already in Linus's tree, why do we need something "special" here? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org