linux-kernel - Re: Please backport commit 3812c8c8f39 to stable

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Message-ID: <20140930081637.GA4456@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:16:37 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please backport commit 3812c8c8f39 to stable

On Mon 29-09-14 20:43:46, Cong Wang wrote:
> Hi, Johannes and Greg
> 
> 
> Please consider to backport the following commit to stable kernels < 3.12.
> 
> commit 3812c8c8f3953921ef18544110dafc3505c1ac62
> Author: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Date:   Thu Sep 12 15:13:44 2013 -0700
> 
>     mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM
>
> It should solve some soft lockup I observed on different machines
> recently. For me myself, I only care about 3.10. :-p

Could you be more specific about the soft lockup you are seeing?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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