Re: [PATCH v4] page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Sep 16 2022 - 05:40:18 EST


On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 08:46:15AM +0800, yong w wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 于2022年9月13日周二 21:54写道:
>
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 09:09:47PM +0800, yong wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > This patch is required to be patched in linux-5.4.y and linux-4.19.y.
> >
> > What is "this patch"? There is no context here :(
> >
> Sorry, I forgot to quote the original patch. the patch is as follows
>
> f27ce0e page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast
>
> > > In addition to that, the following two patches are somewhat related:
> > >
> > > 3334a45 mm/page_alloc: use ac->high_zoneidx for classzone_idx
> > > 9282012 page_alloc: fix invalid watermark check on a negative value
> >
> > In what way? What should be done here by us?
> >
>
> I think these two patches should also be merged.
>
> The classzone_idx parameter is used in the zone_watermark_fast
> functionzone, and 3334a45 use ac->high_zoneidx for classzone_idx.
> "9282012 page_alloc: fix invalid watermark check on a negative
> value" fix f27ce0e introduced issues

Ok, I need an ack by all the developers involved in those commits, as
well as the subsystem maintainer so that I know it's ok to take them.

Can you provide a series of backported and tested patches so that they
are easy to review?

thanks,

greg k-h