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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:02:02 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@...la.net>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer
 [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:36:37AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 09:27:40AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 06:44:22PM +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > FYI, 2.6.33.2 is still affected from this issue. 
> > 
> > Is 2.6.33.3-rc2 affected?  A lot of xfs patches are in there (as are in
> > 2.6.32.12-rc2.)
> 
> The fix is not in Linus' kernel yet, Greg. So once that is done,
> I'll have to backport the fix back to those stable kernels as well.
> It's not a trivial fix, so it will miss this round of stable
> releases....

Ok, that's fine, just checking.  I'm in no rush, I have plenty of other
patches to queue up for the next stable releases :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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