linux-kernel - Re: [Stable-review] [48/70] vmscan: all_unreclaimable() use zone->all

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:40:46 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [48/70] vmscan: all_unreclaimable() use
 zone->all_unreclaimable as a name

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 13:08 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 2.6.38-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> commit 929bea7c714220fc76ce3f75bef9056477c28e74 upstream.
> 
> all_unreclaimable check in direct reclaim has been introduced at 2.6.19
> by following commit.
> 
> 	2006 Sep 25; commit 408d8544; oom: use unreclaimable info
> 
> And it went through strange history. firstly, following commit broke
> the logic unintentionally.
> 
> 	2008 Apr 29; commit a41f24ea; page allocator: smarter retry of
> 				      costly-order allocations
[...]

So presumably this needs to be fixed in 2.6.32.y and other longterm
series as well.  Though there seems to be a whole series of fixes
required in 2.6.32.y!

Are you going to look after that, or should someone else prepare
backports?  (I'm certainly not volunteering - I don't have the VM
knowledge to work out what needs doing.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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