Re: [PATCH] tools/testing/selftests/vm/mlock2-tests: fix mlock2 false-negative errors

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 25-03-20 17:49:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:49:10 -0400 Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Michal!
> > 
> >  
> > Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'll add
> Fixes: 9c4e6b1a7027f ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs")

Wouldn't be this misleading? It would suggest that this commit is
somehow incorrect. I would consider b3b0d09c7a23 ("selftests: vm: add
tests for lock on fault") to be a better fit.

> and cc:stable to this.  Any kernel which has 9c4e6b1a7027f will benefit
> from this change.

OK, makes sense with
Cc: stable # with 9c4e6b1a7027f applied
 
> We're getting quite late in the cycle now so I think I'll hold off
> merging this up until post-5.7-rc1.  It will still get into the stable
> trees, but a bit later.

No problem. Nothing really urget. Coincidentaly we've just had a report
from our partner about this very specific test failure for our
enterprise kernel as well. I will just backport the patch as it seems
nobody really objects to it.

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs