From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ltp@lists.linux.it, Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>,
xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: fix hugetlb page migration/fault race causing SIGBUS
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:39:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190808163928.118f8da4f4289f7c51b8ffd4@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190808185313.GG18351@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 20:53:13 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/1/165
> >
> > Ironic to find that commit message in a stable backport.
> >
> > I'm happy to drop the Fixes tag.
>
> No, please do not drop the Fixes tag. That is a very _useful_
> information. If the stable tree maintainers want to abuse it so be it.
> They are responsible for their tree. If you do not think this is a
> stable material then fine with me. I tend to agree but that doesn't mean
> that we should obfuscate Fixes.
Well, we're responsible for stable trees too. And yes, I find it
irksome. I/we evaluate *every* fix for -stable inclusion and if I/we
decide "no" then dangit, it should be backported.
Maybe we should introduce the Fixes-no-stable: tag. That should get
their attention.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-08 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-08 0:05 Mike Kravetz
2019-08-08 3:36 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-08-08 7:46 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 7:47 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 16:55 ` Mike Kravetz
2019-08-08 18:53 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 23:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2019-08-09 6:46 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-09 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
2019-08-11 23:46 ` Sasha Levin
2019-08-12 8:45 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-12 13:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-12 13:22 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-12 15:33 ` Sasha Levin
2019-08-12 16:09 ` Qian Cai
2019-08-12 21:37 ` Andrew Morton
2019-08-13 8:43 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-08 2:24 裘稀石(稀石)
2019-08-08 2:44 ` Mike Kravetz
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