RE: Will the recent memory leak fixes be backported to longterm kernels?

[Dexuan Cui]

> From: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 17:58
> 
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:16:02AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> Hello, Dexuan!
> 
> A couple of issues has been revealed recently, here are fixes
> (hashes are from the next tree):
> 
> 5f4b04528b5f mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages
> 5a03b371ad6a mm: handle no memcg case in memcg_kmem_charge()
> properly
> 
> These two patches should be added to the serie.

Thanks for the new info!
 
> Re stable backporting, I'd really wait for some time. Memory reclaim is a
> quite complex and fragile area, so even if patches are correct by themselves,
> they can easily cause a regression by revealing some other issues (as it was
> with the inode reclaim case).

I totally agree. I'm now just wondering if there is any temporary workaround,
even if that means we have to run the kernel with some features disabled or
with a suboptimal performance?

Thanks!
--Dexuan