From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Tao Cui <cui.tao@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
roman.gushchin@linux.dev, muchun.song@linux.dev,
Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_counter: reject empty string in page_counter_memparse()
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:53:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apN-zc_5SIEkdzB6@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260829174220.204771edba7c52511dc08641@linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 05:42:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:36 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
>
> > > Whether that benefit outweighs the compatibility risk is not mine to
> > > decide.
> >
> > And I am still not convinced. I do understand your frustration from the
> > debugging the issue. In any way, if other maintainers decide this change
> > is worth I will not stand in the way.
>
> Shakeel seems OK with it. Other other maintainers are being aloof ;)
>
> I'll queue it for now, along with a note that additional poking is
> needed.
>
> A v2 would be nice, please. Add details about that production incident
> and make the requested update to
> Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst.
V2 is already out and we decided to make it a documented behavior.
https://lore.kernel.org/20260826021753.197871-1-cui.tao@linux.dev
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-30 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-17 4:26 Tao Cui
2026-08-17 16:16 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-08-18 7:45 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-18 15:06 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-08-18 16:43 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-19 3:00 ` Tao Cui
2026-08-19 7:00 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-30 0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2026-08-30 0:53 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
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