From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"Odzioba, Lukasz" <lukasz.odzioba@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
"david.vrabel@citrix.com" <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>
Subject: Re: Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: [Xen-devel] [linux-4.1 bisection] complete test-amd64-i386-qemut-rhel6hvm-amd]
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:23:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160721142328.GO26379@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22416.50164.521430.604730@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Thu 21-07-16 13:45:40, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I see that linux-4.1.y is still at 5880876e9469 which has the serious
> bug introduced by the backport c5ad33184354 "mm/swap.c: flush lru
> pvecs on compound page arrival".
>
> The analogous problem is also still affecting at least linux-3.18.y.
>
> Is there some problem with reverting this patch in the stable
> branches ?
Sasha has mentioned he queued up the follow up fix. I am not sure who is
the 3.18 maintainer but he should do the same.
I am slightly worried that Sasha's email is bouncing for several days
and I am not sure who is his backup. For the time being I would just
suggest doing a local revert or apply Steven's patch from
http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg138760.html
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 15:30 Is: Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: [Xen-devel] [linux-4.1 bisection] complete test-amd64-i386-qemut-rhel6hvm-amd] Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-07-18 15:30 ` Is: Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-07-18 15:48 ` Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: [Xen-devel] " Odzioba, Lukasz
2016-07-18 16:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-07-18 16:18 ` Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-07-18 16:53 ` Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: [Xen-devel] " Sebastian Gottschall
2016-07-18 16:53 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2016-07-21 12:45 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-21 14:23 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-07-21 17:24 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2016-07-21 17:24 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2016-07-19 8:32 ` Is: " Michal Hocko
2016-07-19 8:35 ` Is: Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: " Sebastian Gottschall
2016-07-19 9:23 ` Is: Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[osstest-admin@xenproject.org: [Xen-devel] " Michal Hocko
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