On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:32:17PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > I would assume such a patch would be backported to stable trees because > to me it sounds like the current semantic is simply broken and needs > fixing anyway but it shouldn't be much different from any other bugs. So the program would need then to check also for the -stable minor number where the patch was backported to in addition of any enterprise kernel backport versioning. > This is far from ideal from the "guarantee POV" of course. Agree it's far from ideal and lack of guarantee at least for CRIU means silent random memory corruption. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
