[LTP] Backport d4ae9916ea29 ("mm: soft-offline: close the race against page allocation") to 4.14 and 4.9

[Petr Vorel]

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 01:10:07PM +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > Hi all,

> > I wonder if there was an attempt to backport d4ae9916ea29 ("mm: soft-offline:
> > close the race against page allocation") from 4.19 to 4.14 and 4.9 (patch does
> > not apply, haven't found anything on stable ML, nor in stable tree git,
> > therefore I assume it was left as not easily fixable).

> As it didn't apply, why not try creating a backport to test this
> yourself?  I'll gladly accept such a thing into the trees if you make
> it.

Hi Greg,

thanks for info, I might give it a try.

Kind regards,
Petr

> thanks,

> greg k-h