From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f200.google.com (mail-pf0-f200.google.com [209.85.192.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD386B025E for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:51:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f200.google.com with SMTP id p64so277226195pfb.0 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lgeamrelo13.lge.com (LGEAMRELO13.lge.com. [156.147.23.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h5si4753996pfj.2.2016.07.16.07.51.43 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:51:42 +0900 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: 4.1.28 is broken due to "mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival" Message-ID: <20160716145142.GA29738@bbox> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Lukasz Odzioba , Sasha Levin , Michal Hocko , Kirill Shutemov , Andrea Arcangeli , Vladimir Davydov , Ming Li , Andrew Morton , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 10:46:17AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Hi > > The patch c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 on the kernel v4.1.28 > breaks the kernel. The kernel crashes when executing the boot scripts with > "kernel panic: Out of memory and no killable processes...". The machine > has 512MB ram and 1 core. > > Note that the upstream kernel 4.7-rc4 with this patch works, but when the > patch is backported to the 4.1 branch, it makes the system unbootable. It seems a bug was introduced at backport time, I think. Please, look at http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146868046305014&w=2 > > Mikulas -- 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