Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 9:36 AM Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:

Oh, I guess I have to actually download the stable tree. Normally I only keep the main tree git around..

Ok, so it does the accounting a bit differently - after allocating them rather than before - but it actually ends up being a simpler patch because of that.

I think it ends up like the attached.

UNTESTED.

I'm not 100% convinced we need to backport this that far anyway, but whatever. Nobody sane runs something like a build server on 4.4.

Nobody sane should run 4.4 at all, of course.

Linus