linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm/damon/sysfs: free setup failures generated zombie sub-sub dirs

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Message-Id: <20260103092135.103f1c29166ccb801133e6b0@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 09:21:35 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc: "# 5 . 18 . x" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Jiapeng Chong
 <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>, damon@...ts.linux.dev,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm/damon/sysfs: free setup failures generated
 zombie sub-sub dirs

On Fri,  2 Jan 2026 16:21:37 -0800 SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org> wrote:

> > Also, the setup operations are quite simple.  The certain failures would
> > hence only rarely happen, and are difficult to artificially trigger.
> 
> The user impact of the bugs is limited as explained above, but the bugs exist
> in the code for real world usages.  I therefore expected this series would be
> added to mm-hotfixes-unstable.
> 
> Do you have any concern at treating this series as hotfixes?  If not, could you
> please move this series into mm-hotfixes-unstable?

Sure, I have made that change.