On Mon, Dec 2, 2024, at 15:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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? Yes, I think that's ok, it's just a bit confusing to have it with the original changelog text in -stable when it is used just as a dependency and not for its original purpose. Arnd
