Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] proc/pagemap: walk page tables under pte lock" failed to apply to 3.14-stable tree

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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
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