Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 078/100] kmemleak: add scheduling point to kmemleak_scan()

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 03:46:27PM +0800, Yisheng Xie wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>There is a fix patch for this patch:
>
>  13ab183 mm/kmemleak.c: make cond_resched() rate-limiting more efficient
>
>So if this patch is backported to stable, maybe the above patch is also
>need to be backported too.

Hi Yisheng,

This patch fixes a softlockup, while the patch you linked seems like
an performance optimization for this patch, so I'd rather skip it
unless you're aware of an actual issue it might fix.


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Thanks,
Sasha