Re: [PATCH] mm: get rid of radix tree gfp mask for pagecache_get_page (was: Re: How to handle TIF_MEMDIE stalls?)

Linus Torvalds
2014-12-30T21:45:01Z

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> I've noticed you have taken the patch to mm tree already. I have
> realized I haven't marked it for stable which is worth it IMO because
> debugging nasty reclaim recursion bugs is definitely a pain and might
> fix one and even if it doesn't it is rather straightforward and
> shouldn't break anything. So if nobody has anything against I would mark
> this for stable 3.16+ AFAICS.

I already applied it (as commit 45f87de57f8f), so if you think it's
stable material - and I agree that it looks that way - you should just
email stable@vger.kernel.org about it.

I think it might be a good idea to wait a week or two to make sure it
doesn't have any unexpected side effects.

Linus