From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60856 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726537AbeJKVzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:55:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:27:46 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Roman Gushchin Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@suse.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as free in overcommit" failed to apply to 4.16-stable tree Message-ID: <20181011142746.GE9507@kroah.com> References: <1526132159220203@kroah.com> <20180514104553.GA28956@castle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180514104553.GA28956@castle> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:46:00AM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 03:35:59PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > The patch below does not apply to the 4.16-stable tree. > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit > > id to . > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > Hi, Greg! > > This patch is a part of the following patchset: > 7aaf77272358 mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat > d79f7aa496fc mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as free in overcommit logic > f1782c9bc547 dcache: account external names as indirectly reclaimable memory > 034ebf65c3c2 mm: treat indirectly reclaimable memory as available in MemAvailable > eb59254608bc mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES > > It should be backported as a whole. It applies cleanly on 4.16-stable, > and with a minor trivial adjustment to 4.14-stable. Sorry for the long delay, digging out of my stable backlog... Anyway, is this still needed for 4.14-stable? thanks, greg k-h