Return-Path: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:31:13 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Nikola Ciprich Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel mlist Subject: Re: Patch "mm: vmscan: forcibly scan highmem if there are too many buffer_heads pinning highmem" has been added to the 3.3-stable tree Message-ID: <20120329093113.GR1007@csn.ul.ie> References: <13325234973644@kroah.org> <20120329053639.GA7603@pcnci2.linuxbox.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120329053639.GA7603@pcnci2.linuxbox.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:36:39AM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not 100% sure, but I think this one could go to 3.0.x as well, am I right? > If it's so, could I try to provide backport? (it't doesn't apply cleanly). If you want to try a backport go right ahead. There is an indirect dependency on [2bcf8879: mm: take pagevecs off reclaim stack] which is not suitable for backporting to -stable but handling that should be easy. > Mel, would You care to review then? Or do You plan to send Your own backport? > I had not planned my own backport because the type of bug made it a low priority for me (copying NTFS with small block size on 32 bit X86 with 16G of RAM). If you backport it, I'll review the result. I will be at LSF/MM next week so I might be a bit slow to respond but I'll get around to it. Thanks. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs