Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes -stable

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 02:14:15 EST


On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:58:36PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This is a backport of the series "Memory policy corruption fixes V2". This
> should apply to 3.6-stable, 3.5-stable, 3.4-stable and 3.0-stable without
> any difficulty. It will not apply cleanly to 3.2 but just drop the "revert"
> patch and the rest of the series should apply.
>
> I tested 3.6-stable and 3.0-stable with just the revert and trinity breaks
> as expected for the mempolicy tests. Applying the full series in both case
> allowed trinity to complete successfully. Andi Kleen reported previously
> that the series fixed a database performance regression[1].
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/22/585
>
> include/linux/mempolicy.h | 2 +-
> mm/mempolicy.c | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

Looks good, thanks, now all queued up.

greg k-h
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