linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 0/2] vmstat backports

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Message-Id: <20190729154046.8824-1-wagi@monom.org>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:40:44 +0200
From:   Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 0/2] vmstat backports

Hi Greg,

Second attempt on this topic [1]:

"""
Upstream commmit 0eb77e988032 ("vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable
again and shut down on idle") was back ported in v4.4.178
(bdf3c006b9a2). For -rt we definitely need the bugfix f01f17d3705b
("mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter") as well.

Since the offending patch was back ported to v4.4 stable only, the
other stable branches don't need an update (offending patch and bug
fix are already in).
"""

Though I missed a dependency as Jon noted[2]. The missing patch is
587198ba5206 ("vmstat: Remove BUG_ON from vmstat_update"). I've tested
this on a Tegra K1 one board which exposed the bug. With this should
be fine.

While at it, I looked on all relevant changes for
vmstat_updated(). These two patches are the only relevant changes
which are missing. It seems almost all changes from mainline have made
it back to v4.

Could you please queue the above patches for v4.4.y?

Thanks,
Daniel

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20190513061237.4915-1-wagi@monom.org
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/f32de22f-c928-2eaa-ee3f-d2b26c184dd4@nvidia.com

Christoph Lameter (1):
  vmstat: Remove BUG_ON from vmstat_update

Michal Hocko (1):
  mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter

 mm/vmstat.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

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