linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] memcg: do not trigger OOM from add_to_page_cache

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Message-ID: <20121126205349.GE2301@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:53:49 -0500
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups mailinglist <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] memcg: do not trigger OOM from
 add_to_page_cache_locked

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:46:38PM +0100, azurIt wrote:
> >This issue has been around for a while so frankly I don't think it's
> >urgent enough to rush things.
> 
> 
> Well, it's quite urgent at least for us :( i wasn't reported this so
> far cos i wasn't sure it's a kernel thing. I will be really happy
> and thankfull if fix for this can go to 3.2 in some near
> future.. Thank you very much!

I understand and of course it's important that we get it fixed as soon
as possible.  All I meant was that this problem has not exactly been
introduced in 3.7 and the fix is non-trivial so we should not be
rushing a change like this into 3.7 just days before its release.
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