Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:15:51 +0200 | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] /proc/stat vs. failed order-4 allocation |
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 04:52:22PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:10:58 +0200 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:29:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I'm unclear on how urgent these fixes are. I semi-randomly tagged them > > > > for 3.16 with a -stable backport, but that could be changed? > > > > > > I assume tagged for 3.16 means you intend to get it merged before 3.16 > > > gets released? > > > If so, then that would be fine with me. > > > > um, actually, no, sorry, I meant merge for 3.17-rc1 with a -stable backport. > > > > We can do 3.16 of course, but for what reasons? > > Heiko's patches should also fix > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1319244 as reported > by Stefan Bader. I've pinged them to determine if there is any other > issues with -mm.
The other distribution where this has been seen was RHEL7 (on s390).
FWIW, I thought there was a 'rule' that patches with a -stable tag shouldn't stay in -next for a couple of rc releases. But then again that probably was just a discussion somewhere. Anyway, if neither Stefan or Ian speak up I'm fine with post 3.16 as well.
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