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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Mike Manning <mmanning@vyatta.att-mail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: stable request: mm, page_alloc: actually ignore mempolicies for high priority allocations
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:01:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181108090154.GJ2453@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa553398-f4bf-3d57-376b-94593fb2c127@vyatta.att-mail.com>

On Thu 08-11-18 08:30:40, Mike Manning wrote:
[...]
> 1) The original commit was not suitable for backport to 4.14 and should
> be reverted.

Yes, the original patch hasn't been marked for the stable tree and as
such shouldn't have been backported. Even though it looks simple enough
it is not really trivial.

This is not the first time automagic selection has provent to be wrong.
So can we stop this finally please?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-08  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <a66fb268-74fe-6f4e-a99f-3257b8a5ac3b@vyatta.att-mail.com>
2018-11-08  7:54 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-08  8:30   ` Mike Manning
2018-11-08  9:01     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-11-08  9:06       ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-08  9:11         ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-08  9:41         ` Mike Manning
2018-12-28 10:49           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-11-08  9:32     ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-08 10:01       ` Mike Manning

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