Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:30:17 -0500 | From | Jonathan Nieder <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/34] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints |
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Mel Gorman wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> > > commit 095760730c1047c69159ce88021a7fa3833502c8 upstream. > > Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This is a diagnostic patch that > was part of a series addressing excessive slab shrinking after > GFP_NOFS failures. There is detailed information on the series' > motivation at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/2/42 .
Thanks. Why would we want this particular patch in stable@? It doesn't sound like it fixes a serious issue.
Curious, Jonathan
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