[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Jan 18 22:21:59 UTC 2016


On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 01:08:14AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 18:23 +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > 
> >     mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress
> > 
> > to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
> > which can be found at:
> > 
> >     http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
> > 
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt23.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> > reply to this email.
> [...]
> 
> You also need this fix:
> 
> commit 751e5f5c753e8d447bcf89f9e96b9616ac081628
> Author: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 8 11:18:29 2016 +0100
> 
>     vmstat: allocate vmstat_wq before it is used
> 

Thank you Ben and Tetsuo.  I'll also queue this for the next 3.16
kernel release.

Cheers,
--
Luís

> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
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