linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: prevent KSM from completely breaking VMA merging

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Message-ID: <d8111fae-7bce-41ba-83d4-b460650e9962@lucifer.local>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 06:25:58 +0100
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>, Xu Xin <xu.xin16@....com.cn>,
        Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: prevent KSM from completely breaking VMA merging

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 02:57:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2025 19:52:00 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> > > CCing stable is likely not a good idea at this point (and might be rather
> > > hairy).
> >
> > We should probably underline to Andrew not to add one :>) but sure can add.
>
> Thank deity for that.

Yes this one would be a bit... grim :)

>
> I'll await v2, thanks.  It might be helpful to cc Stefan Roesch on that?

Ack and ack.

>
>