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From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	"Stable@vger.kernel.org" <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Will the recent memory leak fixes be backported to longterm kernels?
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 02:45:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PU1P153MB0169FE681EF81BCE81B005A1BFCF0@PU1P153MB0169.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181102005816.GA10297@tower.DHCP.thefacebook.com>

> From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 17:58
> 
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:16:02AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> Hello, Dexuan!
> 
> A couple of issues has been revealed recently, here are fixes
> (hashes are from the next tree):
> 
> 5f4b04528b5f mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages
> 5a03b371ad6a mm: handle no memcg case in memcg_kmem_charge()
> properly
> 
> These two patches should be added to the serie.

Thanks for the new info!
 
> Re stable backporting, I'd really wait for some time. Memory reclaim is a
> quite complex and fragile area, so even if patches are correct by themselves,
> they can easily cause a regression by revealing some other issues (as it was
> with the inode reclaim case).

I totally agree. I'm now just wondering if there is any temporary workaround,
even if that means we have to run the kernel with some features disabled or
with a suboptimal performance?

Thanks!
--Dexuan


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-02  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-02  0:16 Will the recent memory leak fixes be backported to longterm kernels? Dexuan Cui
2018-11-02  0:45 ` Sasha Levin
2018-11-02  0:58 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-11-02  2:45   ` Dexuan Cui [this message]
2018-11-02  3:16     ` Roman Gushchin
2018-11-02  8:03     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 15:48       ` Roman Gushchin
2018-11-02 16:13         ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 16:22           ` Roman Gushchin
2018-11-02 16:51             ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 17:25               ` Roman Gushchin
2018-11-02 17:48                 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 19:38                   ` Roman Gushchin
2018-11-05  9:21                     ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-28 10:50                       ` Greg KH
2019-01-30  0:23                         ` Sasha Levin
2019-01-30  5:58                           ` Roman Gushchin
2018-11-02 16:01     ` Sasha Levin
2018-11-04  9:16       ` Mike Rapoport

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