From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes -stable
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:13:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350206037.4832.70.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349801921-16598-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
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On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 17:58 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This is a backport of the series "Memory policy corruption fixes V2". This
> should apply to 3.6-stable, 3.5-stable, 3.4-stable and 3.0-stable without
> any difficulty. It will not apply cleanly to 3.2 but just drop the "revert"
> patch and the rest of the series should apply.
>
> I tested 3.6-stable and 3.0-stable with just the revert and trinity breaks
> as expected for the mempolicy tests. Applying the full series in both case
> allowed trinity to complete successfully. Andi Kleen reported previously
> that the series fixed a database performance regression[1].
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/22/585
>
> include/linux/mempolicy.h | 2 +-
> mm/mempolicy.c | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
I've queued up patches 2-5 for 3.2, thanks.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-09 16:58 Mel Gorman
2012-10-09 16:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages" Mel Gorman
2012-10-09 16:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] mempolicy: remove mempolicy sharing Mel Gorman
2012-10-09 16:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() Mel Gorman
2012-10-09 16:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy() Mel Gorman
2012-10-09 16:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma() Mel Gorman
2012-12-04 12:54 ` Tommi Rantala
2012-12-04 14:15 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-05 5:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-12-05 6:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-12-05 7:24 ` [PATCH] tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak Hugh Dickins
2012-12-05 9:52 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-05 20:25 ` Tommi Rantala
2012-12-05 21:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-12-05 22:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-10-10 0:47 ` [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes -stable Greg KH
2012-10-14 9:13 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
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