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 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.

      Arnd




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