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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:30:11 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: regression/bisected commit
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:37:03 +0500 Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 4:50 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm all confused.
> > >
> > > 4434a56ec209 ("stackdepot: make fast paths lock-less again") was
> > > mainlined for v6.8-rc3.
> >
> > Uh sorry, I just trusted the info that it's not merged and didn't verify
> > it myself. Yeah, I can see it is there.
> >
> 
> Wait, I am talk about these two patches which is not merged yet:
> [PATCH v2 1/2] stackdepot: use variable size records for non-evictable entries
> [PATCH v2 2/2] kasan: revert eviction of stack traces in generic mode
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240129100708.39460-1-elver@google.com/

A can move those into the 6.8-rc hotfixes queue, and it appears a
cc:stable will not be required.

However I'm not seeing anything in the changelogs to indicate that
we're fixing a dramatic performance regression, nor why that
regressions is occurring.