linux-kernel - Re: Memory management issue in 4.18.15

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Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:01:46 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     Spock <dairinin@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: Memory management issue in 4.18.15

On Mon 22-10-18 15:08:22, Roman Gushchin wrote:
[...]
> RE backporting: I'm slightly surprised that only one patch of the memcg
> reclaim fix series has been backported. Either all or none makes much more
> sense to me.

Yeah, I think this is AUTOSEL trying to be clever again. I though it has
been agreed that MM is quite good at marking patches for stable and so
it was not considered by the machinery. Sasha?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs