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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:50:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221202165027.8d0761724f30f6701a9a5da0@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJD7tkapGALWoqrs+cbE8i1w4eDcdj=naHxqybPu6NLAnCZ0iQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:38:12 -0800 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 4:35 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 16:26:05 -0800 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew, does this need to be picked up by stable branches?
> >
> > Does it?  The changelog doesn't have a clear description of the
> > user-visible effects of the flaw, which is the guiding light for a
> > backport?
> >
> >
> 
> There are 2 example scenarios in the changelog that misbehave without
> this fix, cases where the protection of a memcg that is the target of
> reclaim is not ignored as it should be.

Yes.  I found them quite unclear.  How would someone who is
experiencing a particualr runtime issue be able to recognize whether
this patch might address that issue?



  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-03  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-02  3:15 [PATCH v3 0/3] mm: memcg: fix " Yosry Ahmed
2022-12-02  3:15 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mm: memcg: fix stale " Yosry Ahmed
2022-12-03  0:26   ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-12-03  0:35     ` Andrew Morton
2022-12-03  0:38       ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-12-03  0:50         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-12-03  0:56           ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-12-02  3:15 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until() Yosry Ahmed
2022-12-02 22:20   ` Roman Gushchin
2022-12-02  3:15 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected Yosry Ahmed

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