From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Nadolski,
Edmund" <edmund.nadolski@intel.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
stable@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: stable: mm: vmstat: use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:18:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110304001826.GA2429@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303110324.GH14162@csn.ul.ie>
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:03:24AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Edmund Nadolski reported the same problem Kosaki did against the commit
> [88f5acf8: mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when
> memory is low] whereby kswapd was in an inconsistent locking state due
> to calling get_online_cpus(): See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/2/398 for
> details. This is already fixed upstream by commit [b44129b3: mm: vmstat: use
> a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds]. Unless
> there is an objection, can this be picked up for 2.6.37-stable please?
> Ideally it would apply against 2.6.36.x as well but that release is no
> longer maintained.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2011-03-03 11:03 stable: mm: vmstat: use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds Mel Gorman
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