Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ 101/175] mm: vmscan: forcibly scan highmem if there are too many buffer_heads pinning highmem | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:10:03 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 13:31 -0700, Mel Gorman wrote: [...] > > > Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42578 > > [...] > > > > but this bug was reported against 3.1.9, so the fix is presumably needed > > for 3.2 at least. > > > > Presumably the upstream change doesn't apply cleanly and would need to > > be backported. Is anyone planning to do that? > > > > It probably does not apply cleanly and considering how the bug is > triggered I was not treating it as a high priority. Nikola Ciprich > (added to cc) had said that he might try backporting it and I would > review the result. I have not heard anything since. I can take a look at > backporting it next week if it is considered a common problem.
I really don't know; I'm happy to leave it to you and the other mm maintainers to decide if it's worthwhile.
Ben.
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