From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: Linux 3.18 and Linux 4.1 reproducible OOM crashes under Xen Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:25:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20160718112533.GF22671@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <22407.35832.132931.105809@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <20160714233435.GA32434@localhost.localdomain> <22408.46130.382220.250581@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <22412.47846.201172.197052@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22412.47846.201172.197052@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: Lukasz Odzioba , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , stable@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Sasha Levin List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon 18-07-16 12:17:58, Ian Jackson wrote: > The Xen Project CI system (`osstest') reports that the current tip of > the Linux 3.18 and Linux 4.1 stable branches have serious problems > booting Xen. > > Our automatic bisector has completed its work and fingered (in 3.18) > a2d8c5147532 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" > (and a backport of what seems to be the same commit to Linux 4.1). Yes, this patch has been misbackported to the stable tree (at least 4.1 and maybe others which took it over from there). See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714175521.3675e3d6@gandalf.local.home -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs