[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists" has been added to staging queue

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed,  9 Oct 2013 13:51:23 -0700
Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com> wrote:

> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> 
>     mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists
> 
> to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
> which can be found at:
> 
>  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue
> 
> This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.11.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> reply to this email.

I guess it should be OK to add it, but I'm not sure you can trigger
the bug in question in that old kernel. Only latest code made it possible
to trigger the bug, and even then it's a corner case.

Rafael, what do you think?