From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f199.google.com (mail-wr0-f199.google.com [209.85.128.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0856B0253 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:15:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wr0-f199.google.com with SMTP id v109so467399wrc.5 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31si13655382wrf.176.2017.09.14.14.15.34 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:15:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] z3fold: fix stale list handling Message-Id: <20170914141532.9339436e0fb0fd85b99b8dbf@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170914155936.697bf347a00dacee7e7f3778@gmail.com> References: <20170914155936.697bf347a00dacee7e7f3778@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Vitaly Wool Cc: Linux-MM , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Streetman , Oleksiy.Avramchenko@sony.com On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:59:36 +0200 Vitaly Wool wrote: > Fix the situation when clear_bit() is called for page->private before > the page pointer is actually assigned. While at it, remove work_busy() > check because it is costly and does not give 100% guarantee anyway. Does this fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196877 ? If so, the bugzilla references and a reported-by should be added. What are the end-user visible effects of the bug? Please always include this info when fixing bugs. Should this fix be backported into -stable kernels? -- 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: email@kvack.org