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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] /proc/stat vs. failed order-4 allocation
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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