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Subject: Re: mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408!
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:56:26 -0500
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On 01/20/2016 09:37 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I am just reading through this old discussion again because "vmstat:
> make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle" which seems
> to be the culprit AFAIU has been merged as 0eb77e988032 and I do not see
> any follow up fix merged to linus tree

So this isn't an "old" discussion - the bug is very much there and I can
hit it easily. As a workaround I've "disabled" vmstat.


Thanks,
Sasha