Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap global shrinker

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:28:04 -0700 Yosry Ahmed <yosry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > The [1/2] changelog lacks a description of how the flaw impacts users.
> > Please describe this fully and maintain that info within the
> > changelogging.  This info helps -stable maintainers and others
> > understand why we're proposing a backport and helps myself and others
> > with timing decisions.
> 
> The first line in the changelog should be sufficient imo: "Zswap
> writeback on hitting the pool limit is broken when memory cgroup is
> disabled"

"broken"?  Perhaps this means "fails to occur".

But what is the userspace-visible impact?  IOW, why are we proposing a
backport?