linux-kernel - Re: [BUG/REGRESSION] THP: broken page count after commit aa88b68c

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 21:10:56 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG/REGRESSION] THP: broken page count after commit aa88b68c

On 06/02/2016 09:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 20:56:27 +0200 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> The fix looks good to me.
>>>
>>> Yes.  A bit regrettable, but that's what release_pages() does.
>>>
>>> Can we have a signed-off-by please?
>>
>> Please also add CC: stable for 4.6
> 
> I shall take that as a "yes" and I'll add
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> 
> to the changelog.

Gerald has created the patch,
but you could add 
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>