[PATCH v6] mm/hugetlb: ignore hugepage kernel args if hugepages are unsupported
SeongJae Park
sj at kernel.org
Tue Dec 23 12:30:44 AEDT 2025
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:49:07 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:22:44 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > My main concern was -
> > > A fixes tag means it might get auto backported to stable kernels too,
> >
> > Not in the MM world -- IIRC. I think there is the agreement, that we
> > decide what should go into stable and what not.
> >
> > Andrew can correct me if my memory is wrong.
>
> Yes, -stable maintainers have been asked to only backport patches where
> the MM developers asked for that, with cc:stable. There may be
> slipups, but as far as I know this is working.
>
> I don't actually know how they determine which patches need this
> special treatment. Pathname? Signed-off-by:akpm?
I guess it is pathname, based on ignore_list file [1] of stable-queue repo.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list#n16
Thanks,
SJ
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