From: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au
To: jrnieder@gmail.com
Cc: 695182@bugs.debian.org, ben@decadent.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
minchan@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#695182: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:23:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201301262023.r0QKNIaK029258@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130126074444.GA28833@elie.Belkin>
Dear Jonathan,
>> If you can identify where it was fixed then your patch for older
>> versions should go to stable with a reference to the upstream fix (see
>> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt).
>
> How about this patch?
>
> It was applied in mainline during the 3.3 merge window, so kernels
> newer than 3.2.y shouldn't need it.
>
> ...
> commit ab8fabd46f811d5153d8a0cd2fac9a0d41fb593d upstream.
> ...
Yes, I beleive that is the correct patch, surely better than my simple
subtraction of min_free_kbytes.
Noting, that this does not "solve" all problems, the latest 3.8 kernel
still crashes with OOM:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1098961/comments/18
Thanks, Paul
Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
--
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/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-26 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-25 9:53 paul.szabo
2013-01-25 13:01 ` Bug#695182: " Ben Hutchings
2013-01-25 23:49 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-26 0:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-26 3:05 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-26 3:07 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-26 3:17 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-26 0:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-26 15:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-26 7:44 ` Bug#695182: " Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-26 20:23 ` paul.szabo [this message]
2013-01-28 6:23 ` Minchan Kim
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=201301262023.r0QKNIaK029258@como.maths.usyd.edu.au \
--to=paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au \
--cc=695182@bugs.debian.org \
--cc=ben@decadent.org.uk \
--cc=jrnieder@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=minchan@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox