From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753874Ab0LFWxN (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:53:13 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:52365 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752389Ab0LFWxM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:53:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:46:22 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Daisuke Nishimura Cc: stable@kernel.org, LKML , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [stable] [BUGFIX] memcg: avoid deadlock between move charge and try_charge() Message-ID: <20101206224622.GN9265@kroah.com> References: <20101116191748.d6645376.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> <20101116124117.64608b66.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20101117092401.61c2117a.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> <20101126164825.24e684ca.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101126164825.24e684ca.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 04:48:25PM +0900, Daisuke Nishimura wrote: > > > > Cc: > > > > > > The patch doesn't apply well to 2.6.36 so if we do want it backported > > > then please prepare a tested backport for the -stable guys? > > > > > O.K. > > I'll test a backported patch for 2.6.36.y and send it after this is merged into mainline. > > > Done. > > I've tested this backported patch on 2.6.36 and it works properly. > There is no change in mm/memcontrol.c from v2.6.36 to v2.6.36.1, so > this can be applied to 2.6.36.1 too. Thanks for the patch, I've now queued it up for .36-stable. greg k-h