From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753419AbcDAUPD (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:15:03 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44616 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753175AbcDAUO7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 16:14:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 13:14:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: reclaim highmem zone if buffer_heads is over limit Message-Id: <20160401131458.e31d45f56a98c62669b35e3d@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160401080350.GB8916@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1459497658-22203-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20160401080350.GB8916@dhcp22.suse.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:03:50 +0200 Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 01-04-16 17:00:58, Minchan Kim wrote: > [...] > > [2] commit 5acbd3bfc93b ("mm, oom: rework oom detection") > > I didn't look a tht patch yet but wanted to note that this sha is most > probably from linux-next and won't be stable. Also this patch will most > likely see some changes in future so making changes on top which should > go in independetly will likely just complicate things. Yes, we'll need two patches please. One to fix 6b4f7799c6a5 ("mm: vmscan: invoke slab shrinkers from shrink_zone()") (which is in mainline) and a second to clean up -mm's "mm, oom: rework oom detection".