linux-kernel - Re: Patch "mm: vmscan: forcibly scan highmem if there are too many buffer_heads pinning highmem" has been added to the 3.3-stable tree

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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:31:13 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel mlist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch "mm: vmscan: forcibly scan highmem if there are too many
 buffer_heads pinning highmem" has been added to the 3.3-stable tree

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:36:39AM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think this one could go to 3.0.x as well, am I right?
> If it's so, could I try to provide backport? (it't doesn't apply cleanly).

If you want to try a backport go right ahead. There is an indirect dependency
on [2bcf8879: mm: take pagevecs off reclaim stack] which is not suitable
for backporting to -stable but handling that should be easy.

> Mel, would You care to review then? Or do You plan to send Your own backport?
> 

I had not planned my own backport because the type of bug made it a low
priority for me (copying NTFS with small block size on 32 bit X86 with 16G
of RAM). If you backport it, I'll review the result. I will be at LSF/MM next
week so I might be a bit slow to respond but I'll get around to it. Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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