linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 0/4] mm: workingset backports

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Message-ID: <20161025075603.GB31137@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:56:03 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Stable tree <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Antonio SJ Musumeci <trapexit@...wn.link>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 4.4 0/4] mm: workingset backports

On Tue 25-10-16 09:51:44, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> here is the backport of (hopefully) all workingset related fixes for
> 4.4 kernel. The series has been reviewed by Johannes [1]. The main
> motivation for the backport is 22f2ac51b6d6 ("mm: workingset: fix crash
> in shadow node shrinker caused by replace_page_cache_page()") which is
> a fix for a triggered BUG_ON. This is not sufficient because there are
> follow up fixes which were introduced later.
 
 Ups, forgot to add
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024152605.11707-1-mhocko@kernel.org

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs