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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:01:54 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stable request: mm, page_alloc: actually ignore mempolicies for
 high priority allocations
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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?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs