From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, dave.hansen@intel.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: fix calculation of pgdat->nr_zones
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 04:05:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181204090500.GR235790@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181119133851.GM22247@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 02:38:51PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>Forgot to mention that this should probably go to stable. Having an
>incorrect nr_zones might result in all sorts of problems which would be
>quite hard to debug (e.g. reclaim not considering the movable zone).
>I do not expect many users would suffer from this it but still this is
>trivial and obviously right thing to do so backporting to the stable
>tree shouldn't be harmful (last famous words).
>
>Cc: stable # since 4.13
>
>older tress would have to be checked explicitly.
While the final commit included Michal's response, it didn't have a
stable tag. Could someone confirm it should go in stable?
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-04 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-17 2:20 Wei Yang
2018-11-19 6:38 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-20 3:22 ` Wei Yang
2018-11-19 9:48 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-19 13:38 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-04 9:05 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2018-12-04 9:11 ` Wei Yang
2018-11-19 10:07 ` osalvador
2018-11-19 10:20 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-19 14:15 ` Wei Yang
2018-11-19 14:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-19 21:44 ` Wei Yang
2018-11-19 21:47 ` Michal Hocko
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