linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Fix vma_is

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Message-ID: <20180717104424.GA7193@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:44:24 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Fix vma_is_anonymous() false-positives

On Tue 17-07-18 12:30:30, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
[...]
> You propose quite a big redesign on how we handle anonymous VMAs.
> Feel free to propose the patch(set). But I don't think it would fly for
> stable@.

OK, fair enough. I thought this would be much easier in the end but I
admit I haven't tried that so I might have underestimated the whole
thing.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs