Re: 5.13.2-rc and others have many not for stable

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 09:52:58AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 13-07-21 18:28:13, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > At present this -stable
> > promiscuity is overriding the (sometime carefully) considered decisions
> > of the MM developers, and that's a bit scary.
>
> Not only scary, it is also a waste of precious time of those who
> carefuly evaluate stable tree backports.

I'm just as concerned with the other direction: we end up missing quite
a lot of patches that are needed in practice, and no one is circling
back to make sure that we have everything we need.

I took a peek at SUSE's tree to see how things work there, and looking
at the very latest mm/ commit:

commit c8c7b321edcf7a7e8c22dc66e0366f72aa2390f0
Author: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue May 4 11:12:10 2021 +0200

    mm: memcontrol: fix cpuhotplug statistics flushing
    (bsc#1185606).
    
    suse-commit: 3bba386a33fac144abf2507554cb21552acb16af

This seems to be commit a3d4c05a4474 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cpuhotplug
statistics flushing") upstream, and I assume that it was picked because
it fixed a real bug someone cares about.

I can maybe understand that at the time that the patch was
written/committed it didn't seem like stable@ material and thus there
was no cc to stable.

But once someone realized it needs to be backported, why weren't we told
to take it into stable too?

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Thanks,
Sasha