On Wed 04-10-17 19:18:21, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 03:32:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: [...] > > You don't think they should be backported into -stables? > > Good point. For this one, it makes sense to CC stable, for 4.11 and > up. The second patch is more of a fortification against potential > future issues, and probably shouldn't go into stable. I am not against. It is true that the memory reserves depletion fix was theoretical because I haven't seen any real life bug. I would argue that the more robust allocation failure behavior is a stable candidate as well, though, because the allocation can fail regardless of the vmalloc revert. It is less likely but still possible. -- 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>
