On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 02:45:38PM -0800, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-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>. >> >> thanks, > > This patch depends on the following one: > > commit 81d0fa623c5b8dbd5279d9713094b0f9b0a00fb4 > Author: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Oct 9 15:28:32 2014 -0700 > > mm: softdirty: unmapped addresses between VMAs are clean > > Commit 81d0fa623c5b is cleanly applicable onto v3.14.34, so we can backport > 05fbf357d941 with this patch. > > As for the change in 81d0fa623c5b, I think the fix looks clear and simple > (contained in a single function,) so it's worth backporting as a stable fix too. > Or is there any reason that this 81d0fa623c5b was not tagged for stable trees? > Any idea, Peter? Hi Naoya, No good reason it wasn't tagged for stable. I had just assumed that not too many people cared about softdirty :-) I use this patch regularly with 3.11. Peter -- 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