On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:30:44AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 14:43 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let
> > me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchin...@redhat.com>
> >
> > commit a9a238e83fbb0df31c3b9b67003f8f9d1d1b6c96 upstream.
> >
> > This reverts commit 172b06c32b9497 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a
> > relatively small number of objects").
>
> This revert will result in the slab caches of dead
> cgroups with a small number of remaining objects never
> getting reclaimed, which can be a memory leak in some
> configurations.
>
> But hey, that's your tradeoff to make.
That's what is in Linus's tree. Should we somehow diverge from that?
thanks,
greg k-h
