Re: [PATCH] mm: hide incomplete nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/zoneinfo

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 11/29/18 1:52 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 05:48:25PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>> BTW, in 4.19+ the counter has been renamed and exported by
>> the commit b29940c1abd7 ("mm: rename and change semantics of
>> nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes"), so there is no such a problem
>> anymore.
>>
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.14.x-4.18.x
>> Fixes: 7aaf77272358 ("mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat")

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> I do not see this patch in Linus's tree, do you?
> 
> If not, what am I supposed to do with this?

Yeah it wasn't probably clear enough, but this is stable-only patch, as
upstream avoided the (then-unknown) problem in 4.19 as part of a far
more intrusive series. As I've said in my previous reply to this thread,
I don't think we can backport that series to stable (e.g. it introduces
a set of new kmalloc caches that will suddenly appear in /proc/slabinfo)
so I think this is a case for exception from the stable rules.

Vlastimil

> confused,
> 
> greg k-h
>