On Mon 07-08-17 13:38:37, Michal Hocko wrote: > Hi, > there are two issues this patch series attempts to fix. First one is > something that has been broken since MMF_UNSTABLE flag introduction > and I guess we should backport it stable trees (patch 1). The other > issue has been brought up by Wenwei Tao and Tetsuo Handa has created > a test case to trigger it very reliably. I am not yet sure this is a > stable material because the test case is rather artificial. If there is > a demand for the stable backport I will prepare it, of course, though. > > I hope I've done the second patch correctly but I would definitely > appreciate some more eyes on it. Hence CCing Andrea and Kirill. My > previous attempt with some more context was posted here > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803135902.31977-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx > > My testing didn't show anything unusual with these two applied on top of > the mmotm tree. unless anybody object can we have this merged? Whether to push this to the stable tree is still questionable because it requires a rather artificial workload to trigger the issue but if others think it would be better to have it backported I will prepare backports for all relevant stable trees. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
