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    Subject5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable
    On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

    > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.13.2 release.
    > There are 800 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
    > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
    > let me know.
    >
    > Responses should be made by Wed, 14 Jul 2021 06:02:46 +0000.
    > Anything received after that time might be too late.
    >
    > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
    > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.13.2-rc1.gz
    > or in the git tree and branch at:
    > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.13.y
    > and the diffstat can be found below.
    >
    > thanks,
    >
    > greg k-h
    >
    > -------------
    > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
    >
    > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    > Linux 5.13.2-rc1

    Hi Greg,

    Sorry to be making waves, but please, what's up with the 5.13.2-rc,
    5.12.17-rc, 5.10.50-rc, 5.4.132-rc stable release candidates?

    Amongst the 2000+ patches posted today, there are a significant number
    of them Signed-off-by Andrew, Signed-off-by Linus, Signed-off-by Sasha:
    yet never Cc'ed to stable (nor even posted as AUTOSELs, I think).

    Am I out of date? I thought that had been agreed not to happen:
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190808000533.7701-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com/
    is the thread I found when I looked for confirmation, but I believe the
    same has been agreed before and since too.

    Andrew goes to a lot of trouble to establish which Fixes from his tree
    ought to go to stable. Of course there will be exceptions which we
    later decide should go in after all; but it's worrying when there's a
    wholesale breach like this, and I think most of them should be dropped.

    To pick on just one of many examples (sorry Miaohe!), a patch that
    surprises me, but I've not had time to look into so far, and would
    not want accelerated into X stable releases, 385/800

    > Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
    > mm/shmem: fix shmem_swapin() race with swapoff

    Hugh

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