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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 23:36:32 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 199297] New: OOMs writing to files from processes with
 cgroup memory limits
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On Fri 06-04-18 13:36:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> > Kernels before 4.11 do not see this behavior. I've tracked the issue to the
> > following commit:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=726d061fbd3658e4bfeffa1b8e82da97de2ca4dd

Thanks for the report! This should be fixed by 1c610d5f93c7 ("mm/vmscan:
wake up flushers for legacy cgroups too")

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs