Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: reclaim highmem zone if buffer_heads is over limit

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:03:50 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> 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".