linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: assign refcount for kmalloc

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:23:36 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc:	Paul Hargrove <phhargrove@....gov>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: assign refcount for kmalloc_caches

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 04:52:54PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:47:39PM -0800, Paul Hargrove wrote:
> > I just had a look at patch-3.7.2-rc1, and this change doesn't appear to
> > have made it in yet.
> > Am I missing something?
> > 
> > -Paul
> 
> I try to check it.
> Ccing to Greg.
> 
> Hello, Pekka and Greg.
> 
> v3.8-rcX has already fixed by another stuff, but it is not simple change.
> So I made a new patch and sent it.
> 
> How this kind of patch (only for stable v3.7) go into stable tree?
> through Pekka's slab tree? or send it to Greg, directly?
> 
> I don't know how to submit this kind of patch to stable tree exactly.
> Could anyone help me?

Please redo it, and send it to stable@...r.kernel.org, and say exactly
why it isn't in Linus's tree, and that it should only be applied to
3.7-stable.

thanks,

greg k-h
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