Re: Patch "mm/slab: decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

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On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 02:38:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2024, at 14:15, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> >     mm/slab: decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
> > to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> This does not look like stable material to me, it's part of a
> longer series that rewrites the handling of small allocations
> in a major way. The series is a very useful feature and saves
> a lot of RAM, but backporting it requires merging all of the
> series, plus any regression fixes following it.

It fixes the build for 6.1.y, as reported here:
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/eda70745-0ea2-43bd-bee3-8905e3a1d3cc@xxxxxxxxxxxx

So unless it causes other problems, just this patch should be all that
is needed, right?

thanks,

greg k-h




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