Re: [PATCH 3.14 52/70] mm: fix mlock accouting

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Feb 25 2016 - 04:49:03 EST


On 02/25/2016, 10:04 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 25-02-16 01:02:59, Luis Henriques wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 07:34:01PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure this should be queued for the 3.14 kernel. It is tagged
>> for 4.4+ and since in this kernel version __mod_zone_page_state()
>> doesn't actually cast nr_pages to long, this patch doesn't seem to be
>> required.
>
> Yes, 6cdb18ad98a4 hasn't been backported to 3.14 stable tree. I guess
> the 3.14 confusion came from Fixes: ff6a6da60b89 which is true in theory
> but wasn't a real problem back then.

Ok, dropping from 3.12 for the same reason too.

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