linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO

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Message-ID: <3b539d8d-e529-45b0-aa83-545248bc0670@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:45:18 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Sven van Ashbrook <svenva@...omium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, bgeffon@...gle.com,
 cujomalainey@...omium.org, kramasub@...omium.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-sound@...r.kernel.org, perex@...ex.cz, stable@...r.kernel.org,
 tiwai@...e.com, tiwai@...e.de, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
 Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO |
 __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations

On 2/26/24 17:09, Sven van Ashbrook wrote:
> Vlastimil,
> 
> We noticed that this patch is now added to Andrew Morton's
> mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.
> 
> How can we help to get this into mm-hotfixes-stable
> and from there, into mainline ?

A Tested-by: can't hurt, but of course you need to finish the testing first.
It's encouraging you didn't hit the bug yet anymore, thought!

> We are still stress-testing using low memory suspend. Anything else
> that is required, and we can help with?

I think that's already great enough, thanks!

> Sven