Re: [PATCH] mm: Ignore VM_SOFTDIRTY on VMA merging, v2

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:56:29PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:14:16AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] mm: Ignore VM_SOFTDIRTY on VMA merging, v2
> > > 
> > 
> > It passed the gimp launching test. Patch looks sane but I confess I did
> > not put a whole lot of thought into it because I see that Andrew is
> > already reviewing it so
> > 
> > Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > If this is merged then remember that it should be tagged for 3.12-stable
> > as 3.12.7 and 3.12.8 are affected by this bug.
> 
> Thanks a huge, Mel! Andrew has picked it up and CC'ed stable@ team.

Big thanks to the gimp developers that actually pinned this down as a
kernel bug and the people who shoved it through the kernel bugzilla. I
just did a light bit of legwork shuffling the paperwork around :P

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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