Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm,vmscan: Kill global shrinker lock.

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 26-01-18 12:12:00, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Would you answer to Michal's questions
> 
>   Is this a permanent state or does the holder eventually releases the lock?
> 
>   Do you remember the last good kernel?
> 
> and my guess
> 
>   Since commit 0bcac06f27d75285 was not backported to 4.14-stable kernel,
>   this is unlikely the bug introduced by 0bcac06f27d75285 unless Eric
>   explicitly backported 0bcac06f27d75285.

Can we do that in the original email thread please. Conflating these two
things while we have no idea about the culprit is just mess.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs