linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH REPOST] Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat

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Message-ID: <20180627194018.6jwkta4eagxiixix@home.goodmis.org>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:40:18 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "Steven J . Hill" <steven.hill@...ium.com>,
        Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST] Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update()
 preemption BUG

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 02:27:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:46:45 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > Can we please revert that master piece of duct tape engineering and wait
> > for someone to actually trigger the warning again?
> 
> OK.

And while we're at it, can we revert it from stable as well. As this is just
an overly aggressive pulling anything that looks like a fix into stable.

-- Steve