Re: stable: mm: vmstat: use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:03:24AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Edmund Nadolski reported the same problem Kosaki did against the commit
> [88f5acf8: mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when
> memory is low] whereby kswapd was in an inconsistent locking state due
> to calling get_online_cpus(): See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/2/398 for
> details. This is already fixed upstream by commit [b44129b3: mm: vmstat: use
> a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds]. Unless
> there is an objection, can this be picked up for 2.6.37-stable please?
> Ideally it would apply against 2.6.36.x as well but that release is no
> longer maintained.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h

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