linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:30:17 -0500
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:	Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints

Mel Gorman wrote:

> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
>
> commit 095760730c1047c69159ce88021a7fa3833502c8 upstream.
>
> Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This is a diagnostic patch that
> 	was part of a series addressing excessive slab shrinking after
> 	GFP_NOFS failures. There is detailed information on the series'
> 	motivation at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/2/42 .

Thanks.  Why would we want this particular patch in stable@?  It
doesn't sound like it fixes a serious issue.

Curious,
Jonathan
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