Re: 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free

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On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for the testing. So what do we do now about 4.8? (4.7 is
> already EOL AFAICS).
>
> - send the patch [1] as 4.8-only stable.

I think that's the right thing to do. It's pretty small, and the
argument that it changes the oom logic too much is pretty bogus, I
think. The oom logic in 4.8 is simply broken. Let's get it fixed.
Changing it is the point.

               Linus

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