From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F20C38D0039 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 19:30:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:18:26 -0800 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: stable: mm: vmstat: use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds Message-ID: <20110304001826.GA2429@kroah.com> References: <20110303110324.GH14162@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110303110324.GH14162@csn.ul.ie> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Nadolski, Edmund" , Greg KH , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Williams, Dan J" , Christoph Lameter , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , stable@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:03:24AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > Edmund Nadolski reported the same problem Kosaki did against the commit > [88f5acf8: mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when > memory is low] whereby kswapd was in an inconsistent locking state due > to calling get_online_cpus(): See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/2/398 for > details. This is already fixed upstream by commit [b44129b3: mm: vmstat: use > a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds]. Unless > there is an objection, can this be picked up for 2.6.37-stable please? > Ideally it would apply against 2.6.36.x as well but that release is no > longer maintained. Now queued up, thanks. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org