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

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 17:58 +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(-)

I've queued up patches 2-5 for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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