linux-kernel - Re: Memory management issue in 4.18.15

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Date:   Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:26:02 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     guro@...com, Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        dairinin@...il.com,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        riel@...riel.com, hannes <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        vdavydov.dev@...il.com, shakeelb@...gle.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, sashal@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Memory management issue in 4.18.15

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 1:01 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

I've talked about it briefly with Andrew, and he suggested that I'll
send him the list of AUTOSEL commits separately to avoid the noise, so
we'll try that and see what happens.


--
Thanks.
Sasha