On Thu 08-11-18 10:06:35, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 11/8/18 10:01 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 08-11-18 08:30:40, Mike Manning wrote:
> > [...]
> >> 1) The original commit was not suitable for backport to 4.14 and should
> >> be reverted.
> >
> > Yes, the original patch hasn't been marked for the stable tree and as
> > such shouldn't have been backported. Even though it looks simple enough
> > it is not really trivial.
>
> I think you confused the two patches.
>
> Original commit 1d26c112959f ("mm, page_alloc: do not break
> __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset") was marked for stable, especially
> pre-4.7 where SLAB could be potentially broken.
You are right. My apology!
> Commit d6a24df00638 ("mm, page_alloc: actually ignore mempolicies for
> high priority allocations") was not marked stable and is being requested
> in this thread. But I'm reluctant to agree with this without properly
> understanding what went wrong.
Agreed
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
