linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] mm/memory-hotplug: fix lowmem count overflow when offline pages

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Message-ID: <1369712253.3469.426.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 04:37:33 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] mm/memory-hotplug: fix lowmem count overflow
 when offline pages

On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 13:58 +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Changelog:
>  v1 -> v2:
> 	* show number of HighTotal before hotremove 
> 	* remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> 	* cc stable kernels
> 	* add Michal reviewed-by
> 
> Logic memory-remove code fails to correctly account the Total High Memory 
> when a memory block which contains High Memory is offlined as shown in the
> example below. The following patch fixes it.
> 
> Stable for 2.6.24+.
[...]
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
[...]

This is not the correct way to request changes for stable.  See
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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