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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:45:00 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: get rid of radix tree gfp mask for pagecache_get_page
 (was: Re: How to handle TIF_MEMDIE stalls?)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>, Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> I've noticed you have taken the patch to mm tree already. I have
> realized I haven't marked it for stable which is worth it IMO because
> debugging nasty reclaim recursion bugs is definitely a pain and might
> fix one and even if it doesn't it is rather straightforward and
> shouldn't break anything. So if nobody has anything against I would mark
> this for stable 3.16+ AFAICS.

I already applied it (as commit 45f87de57f8f), so if you think it's
stable material - and I agree that it looks that way - you should just
email stable@vger.kernel.org about it.

I think it might be a good idea to wait a week or two to make sure it
doesn't have any unexpected side effects.

                        Linus

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