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

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:22:20 +0000
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.14 52/70] mm: fix mlock accouting

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:04:37AM +0100, 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, now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h