RE: [PATCH v6 1/2] mm: migration: fix the FOLL_GET failure on following huge page

From: Wang, Haiyue
Date: Wed Aug 17 2022 - 01:48:56 EST


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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] mm: migration: fix the FOLL_GET failure on following huge page
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> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 03:31:37 +0000 "Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > I would be better to fix this for real at those three client code sites?
> >
> > Then 5.19 will break for a while to wait for the final BIG patch ?
>
> If that's the proposal then your [1/2] should have had a cc:stable and
> changelog words describing the plan for 6.0.
>
> But before we do that I'd like to see at least a prototype of the final
> fixes to s390 and hugetlb, so we can assess those as preferable for

Got it, make sense. ;-)

> backporting. I don't think they'll be terribly intrusive or risky?