linux-kernel - Re: Crashes in -next due to 'mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policy'

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:39:14 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Crashes in -next due to 'mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone
 allocation policy'

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:05:33PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see a lot of crashes with various architectures in next-20160623.
> I bisected mips and sh; both bisect log point to the same patch.
> Bisect log is attached. arm, ppc, and x86 images crash as well,
> but I did not confirm if the same patch is the culprit there.
> 

The series has been dropped. Due to conflicts with other patches, there
were a few bugs introduced, one which potentially corrupted memory. Just
to be sure though, what sort of workload crashed just in case I need to
adjust the test coverage?

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs