Messages in this thread | | | From | Yosry Ahmed <> | Date | Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:38:12 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg |
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On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 4:35 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:26:05 -0800 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote: > > > Andrew, does this need to be picked up by stable branches? > > Does it? The changelog doesn't have a clear description of the > user-visible effects of the flaw, which is the guiding light for a > backport? > >
There are 2 example scenarios in the changelog that misbehave without this fix, cases where the protection of a memcg that is the target of reclaim is not ignored as it should be.
I would think that it needs to be backported to stable releases, unless Roman or any of the other memcg maintainers disagrees.
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