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[173.79.60.52]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 6a1803df08f44-91bcb8b69f3sm27054236d6.3.2026.10.16.09.44.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:44:31 -0400 From: Gregory Price To: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, longman@redhat.com, ridong.chen@linux.dev, tj@kernel.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mkoutny@suse.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, brendan.jackman@linux.dev, ziy@nvidia.com, david@kernel.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: fix two allocator races with zonelist and cpuset updates Message-ID: References: <20261014222456.2318284-1-gourry@gourry.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20261014222456.2318284-1-gourry@gourry.net> On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Gregory Price (Meta) wrote: > Two small fixes for lockless allocator checks that can act on an > inconsistent view of state another CPU is updating. > > Neither of these are stable-worthy. > I'm going to need to repackage this with some additional race fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20261015210539.3243563-1-gourry@gourry.net/ + 2 others not posted yet. There's some mild conflicts with the CONFIG bits that make the entire series worth backporting for ease. ~Gregory