linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.6 086/126] virtio-balloon: Revert "virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON

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Message-ID: <c8253932-5e6b-51e1-fe0c-19514779c9be@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 10:21:41 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.6 086/126] virtio-balloon: Revert "virtio-balloon:
 Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM"

On 28.05.20 07:51, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 26. 05. 20, 20:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 835a6a649d0dd1b1f46759eb60fff2f63ed253a7 ]
>>
>> This reverts commit 5a6b4cc5b7a1892a8d7f63d6cbac6e0ae2a9d031.
>>
>> It has been queued properly in the akpm tree, this version is just
>> creating conflicts.
> 
> Should this be applied to stable trees at all?
> 
> To me, it occurs to be a revert to avoid conflicts, not to fix something?

Agreed.


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb