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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:38:12 -0800 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 4:35 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:26:05 -0800 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew, does this need to be picked up by stable branches?
> >
> > Does it? The changelog doesn't have a clear description of the
> > user-visible effects of the flaw, which is the guiding light for a
> > backport?
> >
> >
>
> There are 2 example scenarios in the changelog that misbehave without
> this fix, cases where the protection of a memcg that is the target of
> reclaim is not ignored as it should be.

Yes. I found them quite unclear. How would someone who is
experiencing a particualr runtime issue be able to recognize whether
this patch might address that issue?

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