Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] mm: fix initialization of struct page for holes in memory layout

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Tue Jan 12 2021 - 00:26:15 EST


On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 04:58:01PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:40:15 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Commit 73a6e474cb37 ("mm: memmap_init: iterate over
> > memblock regions rather that check each PFN") exposed several issues with
> > the memory map initialization and these patches fix those issues.
> >
> > Initially there were crashes during compaction that Qian Cai reported back
> > in April [1]. It seemed back then that the problem was fixed, but a few
> > weeks ago Andrea Arcangeli hit the same bug [2] and there was an additional
> > discussion at [3].
>
> The earlier version of these fixes had cc:stable. Was the omission
> this time deliberate?

Nope, it was accidental.
Thanks for noticing.

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.