From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, aarcange@redhat.com,
hughd@google.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, mgorman@suse.de,
riel@redhat.com, mhocko@suse.cz, jannh@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, srivatsab@vmware.com,
srivatsa@csail.mit.edu, amakhalov@vmware.com,
srinidhir@vmware.com, bvikas@vmware.com, srostedt@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Backported fixes for 4.4 stable tree
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:06:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190724120627.GF3244@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1563880111-19058-1-git-send-email-akaher@vmware.com>
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 04:38:23PM +0530, Ajay Kaher wrote:
> These patches include few backported fixes for the 4.4 stable
> tree.
> I would appreciate if you could kindly consider including them in the
> next release.
Why are these needed? From what I remember, the last patch here is only
needed for machines that are "HUGE" and for those, you shouldn't be
using 4.4.y anymore anyway, right? You just end up saving so much more
speed and energy using a newer kernel, why would you want to waste it
using an older one?
So I need a really good reason why to accept these :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-24 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-23 11:08 [PATCH 0/8] Backported fixes for 4.4 stable tree Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper function Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: handle PTE-mapped tail pages in gerneric fast gup implementaiton Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm, gup: remove broken VM_BUG_ON_PAGE compound check for hugepages Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm, gup: ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] pipe: add pipe_buf_get() helper Ajay Kaher
2019-07-23 11:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get Ajay Kaher
2019-07-24 12:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-08-01 16:57 ` [PATCH 0/8] Backported fixes for 4.4 stable tree Greg KH
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