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: <20200528111117.GK33628@sasha-vm>
Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 07:11:17 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
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 Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:21:41AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>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.

Right, I'll drop it - thank you.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha