From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yk0-f176.google.com (mail-yk0-f176.google.com [209.85.160.176]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057016B0035 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:58:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-yk0-f176.google.com with SMTP id 131so5467655ykp.7 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-gg0-x235.google.com (mail-gg0-x235.google.com [2607:f8b0:4002:c02::235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q69si4280000yhd.245.2014.01.20.21.58.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-gg0-f181.google.com with SMTP id 21so2483216ggh.12 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:58:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:58:28 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] mm, memcg: avoid oom notification when current needs access to memory reserves In-Reply-To: <20140116093220.GC28157@dhcp22.suse.cz> Message-ID: References: <20140107162503.f751e880410f61a109cdcc2b@linux-foundation.org> <20140109144757.e95616b4280c049b22743a15@linux-foundation.org> <20140109161246.57ea590f00ea5b61fdbf5f11@linux-foundation.org> <20140110221432.GD6963@cmpxchg.org> <20140115143449.GN8782@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20140116093220.GC28157@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg Kroah-Hartmann On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Michal Hocko wrote: > > This is concerning because it's merged in -mm without being tested by Eric > > and is marked for stable while violating the stable kernel rules criteria. > > Are you questioning the patch fixes the described issue? > > Please note that the exit_robust_list and PF_EXITING as a culprit has > been identified by Eric. Of course I would prefer if it was tested by > anybody who can reproduce it. You're saying the patch hasn't been tested by anybody and that clearly violates the first rule in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt: - It must be obviously correct and tested. Adding Greg to the cc if this should be clarified further. The patches getting proposed through -mm for stable boggles my mind sometimes. -- 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