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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: introduce MADV_CLR_HUGEPAGE
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 17:46:25 +0200
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On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:32:17PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I would assume such a patch would be backported to stable trees because
> to me it sounds like the current semantic is simply broken and needs
> fixing anyway but it shouldn't be much different from any other bugs.

So the program would need then to check also for the -stable minor
number where the patch was backported to in addition of any enterprise
kernel backport versioning.

> This is far from ideal from the "guarantee POV" of course.

Agree it's far from ideal and lack of guarantee at least for CRIU
means silent random memory corruption.

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