Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] mm/mempolicy: Support memory hotplug in weighted interleave

[Honggyu Kim]

Hi Gregory,

On 4/2/2025 2:15 PM, Gregory Price wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 09:34:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if this is going to the final version but could you please add this
> > > patch to stable with Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>?
> > > We might need to bring the whole series to avoid conflicts to stable tree.
> >
> > This is all rather confused.
> >
> > Do we need to backport all three patches into -stable?  If so, all three
> > should have Fixes:.  Preferably they all have the same Fixes: so we
> > aren't backporting untested patch combinations.
>
> I'd just as soon leave the entire thing out of stable backports.
>
> Only the first patch actually fixes a bug (very small memory leak
> during system tear down, so it's not even a critical bug). This could
> be added to stable.
>
> Patches 2 and 3 aren't fixes, they're desired behavioral changes
> to the feature. An interface being confusing doesn't mean it's broken.

I think those are fixes but I also agree that this is behavioral changes as
well.  So I'm fine leaving these out of stable backports.


Hi Andrew,

I won't ask changes so please keep the current status as is.  Sorry for making
confusion.

Thanks,
Honggyu

> ~Gregory