[PATCH 152/241] mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing

[Johannes Weiner]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:56:51PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 11:58 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > 3.5.7.2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
> > 
> > commit 60cefed485a02bd99b6299dad70666fe49245da7 upstream.
> [...]
> 
> Greg, you missed this in 3.{0,4}.y.  I'm attaching the version I used
> for 3.2.y, which seems to be applicable to 3.0.y.  One or other of these
> should work for 3.4.y.

Please don't put this in anything earlier than 3.4 as this was the
first version that exhibited the problem.

I apologize for letting it slip into 3.2; a result of failing to
properly mention the origin of the problem in the changelog, tagging
it stable for 3.4+, and noticing the email proposing it for 3.2.  Time
for vacation, I guess... :/