Dear Jonathan, >> If you can identify where it was fixed then your patch for older >> versions should go to stable with a reference to the upstream fix (see >> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt). > > How about this patch? > > It was applied in mainline during the 3.3 merge window, so kernels > newer than 3.2.y shouldn't need it. > > ... > commit ab8fabd46f811d5153d8a0cd2fac9a0d41fb593d upstream. > ...
Yes, I beleive that is the correct patch, surely better than my simple subtraction of min_free_kbytes. Noting, that this does not "solve" all problems, the latest 3.8 kernel still crashes with OOM: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1098961/comments/18 Thanks, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
