From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
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: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 19:46:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190811234614.GZ17747@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190809151718.d285cd1f6d0f1cf02cb93dc8@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 03:17:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 08:46:33 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> > Maybe we should introduce the Fixes-no-stable: tag. That should get
>> > their attention.
>>
>> No please, Fixes shouldn't be really tight to any stable tree rules. It
>> is a very useful indication of which commit has introduced bug/problem
>> or whatever that the patch follows up to. We in Suse are using this tag
>> to evaluate potential fixes as the stable is not reliable. We could live
>> with Fixes-no-stable or whatever other name but does it really makes
>> sense to complicate the existing state when stable maintainers are doing
>> whatever they want anyway? Does a tag like that force AI from selecting
>> a patch? I am not really convinced.
>
>It should work if we ask stable trees maintainers not to backport
>such patches.
>
>Sasha, please don't backport patches which are marked Fixes-no-stable:
>and which lack a cc:stable tag.
I'll add it to my filter, thank you!
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-11 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-08 0:05 [PATCH] hugetlbfs: fix hugetlb page migration/fault race causing SIGBUS 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
2019-08-09 6:46 ` Michal Hocko
2019-08-09 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
2019-08-11 23:46 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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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