On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:49:37AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:52:32PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> > > > > commit 0cd6144aadd2afd19d1aca880153530c52957604 upstream. > > > > shmem mappings already contain exceptional entries where swap slot > > information is remembered. > > > > To be able to store eviction information for regular page cache, prepare > > every site dealing with the radix trees directly to handle entries other > > than pages. > > I don't see the rest of the thrash-detection patches in this series. > Without anybody actually planting "entries other than pages" in the > radix trees, why is this needed in -stable?
Patches later on in the stable series depended upon the code structure introduced by this patch even though the thrash-detection stuff was not backported. It could have been backported without it but then the patches would look much different from their mainline equivalent. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
