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Message-Id: <20131027050429.7fcc2ed5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 27 Oct 2013 05:04:29 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	handai.szj@...bao.com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] percpu counter: cast this_cpu_sub() adjustment

On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:22:55 -0400 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> We probably want to cc stable for this and the next one.  How should
> these be routed?  I can take these through percpu tree or mm works
> too.  Either way, it'd be best to route them together.

Yes, all three look like -stable material to me.  I'll grab them later
in the week if you haven't ;)

The names of the first two patches distress me.  They rather clearly
assert that the code affects percpu_counter.[ch], but that is not the case. 
Massaging is needed to fix that up.


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