Messages in this thread | | | From | Sebastian Gottschall <> | Date | Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:24:13 +0200 | Subject | Re: Revert c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" from stable tree? Was:[: [Xen-devel] [linux-4.1 bisection] complete test-amd64-i386-qemut-rhel6hvm-amd] |
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Am 21.07.2016 um 16:23 schrieb Michal Hocko: > On Thu 21-07-16 13:45:40, Ian Jackson wrote: >> I see that linux-4.1.y is still at 5880876e9469 which has the serious >> bug introduced by the backport c5ad33184354 "mm/swap.c: flush lru >> pvecs on compound page arrival". >> >> The analogous problem is also still affecting at least linux-3.18.y. >> >> Is there some problem with reverting this patch in the stable >> branches ? > Sasha has mentioned he queued up the follow up fix. I am not sure who is
> the 3.18 maintainer but he should do the same. > > I am slightly worried that Sasha's email is bouncing for several days > and I am not sure who is his backup. For the time being I would just > suggest doing a local revert or apply Steven's patch from > http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg138760.html i patched it it locally and it resolved the issue in 3.18
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