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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

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  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

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