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

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Thu Dec 27 18:41:52 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 19:16 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 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... :/

OK, I've queued up a patch to revert this in 3.2.

Ben.

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