linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH stable-4.9 0/2] mm: follow up oom fixes for 32b

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Message-ID: <20170308125102.GA27694@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2017 13:51:02 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Stable tree <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Trevor Cordes <trevor@...nopolis.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable-4.9 0/2] mm: follow up oom fixes for 32b

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:11:06PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> later in the 4.10 release cycle it turned out that b4536f0c829c ("mm,
> memcg: fix the active list aging for lowmem requests when memcg is
> enabled") was not sufficient to fully close the regression introduced by
> f8d1a31163fc ("mm: consider whether to decivate based on eligible zones
> inactive ratio") [1]. mmotm tree behaved properly and it turned out the
> Linus tree was missing 71ab6cfe88dc ("mm, vmscan: consider eligible
> zones in get_scan_count") merged in 4.11 merge window. The patch heavily
> depends on 4a9494a3d827 ("mm, vmscan: cleanup lru size claculations")
> which has been backported as well (patch 1).
> 
> Please add these two to 4.9+ trees (they should apply to 4.10 as they
> are).  4.8 tree will need them as well but I do not see this stable tree
> being maintained.

For 4.10-stable I needed both of your backports, many thanks for them.

greg k-h