Re: [PATCH 5.6 086/126] virtio-balloon: Revert "virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 05:18:06AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 08:53:43PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 835a6a649d0dd1b1f46759eb60fff2f63ed253a7 ]
> > 
> > This reverts commit 5a6b4cc5b7a1892a8d7f63d6cbac6e0ae2a9d031.
> > 
> > It has been queued properly in the akpm tree, this version is just
> > creating conflicts.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I don't understand. How does this make sense in stable?
> stable does not merge akpm does it?

It does not make sense, and is queued up to be reverted in the next
release.

thanks,

greg k-h