On 10/18/24 07:58, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 02:58:01PM -0700, chrisl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> A few commits from Yu Zhao have been merged into 6.12.
>> They need to be backported to 6.11.
>
> Why?
>
>> - c2a967f6ab0ec ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: don't synchronize_rcu() without HVO")
>> - 95599ef684d01 ("mm/codetag: fix pgalloc_tag_split()")
>> - e0a955bf7f61c ("mm/codetag: add pgalloc_tag_copy()")
>
> For mm changes, we need an explicit ack from the mm maintainers to take
> patches into the stable tree. Why were these not tagged with the normal
> "cc: stable@" tag in the first place?
The two codetags commit actually were tagged. c2a967f6ab0ec seems to me an
unrelated performance optimization, could make sense in a LTS kernel but is
there a lot of benefit expected for the lifetime of 6.11?
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
