On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 07:49:00AM +0000, Ivan Kozik wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to request that this patch be included in the 4.4 stable tree. It > fixes the Bad page state issue discovered at > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2016-08/msg00617.html ('"Bad page state" errors > when calling BULKSTAT under memory pressure?') > > I tested the patch (no changes needed) by applying it to 4.4.52, running a > program to use almost all of my free memory, then running xfs_fsr on a > filesystem with > 1.5M files. Before patch: kernel screams with Bad page state > / "count:-1" within a minute. After patch: no complaints from the kernel. > I repeated the test several times and on another machine that was affected. > I have not seen any problems five days later. Now queued up, thanks. greg k-h