linux-kernel - Re: Regression on ARMs in next-20170531

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Date:   Mon, 5 Jun 2017 22:55:17 -0700
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression on ARMs in next-20170531

* Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> [170604 04:36]:
> I think it's NULL because the slab allocation happens before even the
> root_mem_cgroup is set up, and so root_mem_cgroup -> lruvec -> pgdat
> gives us garbage.
> 
> Tony, Josef, since the patches are dropped from -next, could you test
> the -mm tree at git://git.cmpxchg.org/linux-mmots.git and verify that
> this patch below fixes the issue?

Looks like next-20170605 is broken for ARMs again.. And the patch
below does not apply for me against mmots/master or next.
Care to update?

Regards,

Tony