On Wed 18-01-17 11:23:38, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 17-01-17 17:28:25, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 05:21:44PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > On Tue 17-01-17 17:13:03, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > > > > > mm: fix remote numa hits statistics > > > > > > > > > > to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: > > > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > > > > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > > > > mm-fix-remote-numa-hits-statistics.patch > > > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. > > > > > > > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > > > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > > > > > It is not marked for stable so why it has been chosen? > > > > > > I found it by digging through the git commit logs. > > > > Was the Fixes tag the reason to pick it up? > > It made me pay a bit more attention to it, yes. I search for that and > other keywords, in the git log to see if there are patches that need to > be backported where people forget to add the stable tags. I have to do > this because some subsystems still never set them :( I am pretty sure that Andrew is really trying hard to mark all the core MM changes for stable. Picking up changes just because they have Fixes: tag in them is imho a bad idea. If somebody made the effort to add this tag I am pretty sure Cc: stable was considered as well. If that is not the case let's just push back and ask directly when a patch is submitted rather than picking up the patch and hope that somebody will object... Don't get me wrong, I really do appreciate your effort here I am just worried that conflating Fixes: and Cc: stable is a wrong thing. I absolutely see a reason CC: stable should imply Fixes: but not other way around. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html