Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix lockless reclaim hierarchy iterator" failed to apply to 3.9-stable tree

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On Mon 17-06-13 10:33:01, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:27:50AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 14-06-13 14:31:24, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > 
> > > The patch below does not apply to the 3.9-stable tree.
> > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> > 
> > Patch doesn't apply to 3.9 because the bug has been introduced by
> > 5f578161 (memcg: relax memcg iter caching) merged after 3.9.
> > Sorry, I should have spotted this earlier.
> 
> I noted the version range like this:
> 
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>		[3.10+]
> 
> Greg, is there a better way to communicate this perhaps?  I'm not sure
> how much overhead it would save for you or if these applications to
> different trees are fairly automated anyway.
> 
> I would keep the annotations either way because it makes it easy to
> check if the tree where the patch failed needs a backport or not.

Does it make sense to mark patches for stable if the target version is
not released yet?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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