Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933800AbcKVTjI (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:39:08 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f195.google.com ([209.85.223.195]:34774 "EHLO mail-io0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932627AbcKVTjH (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:39:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <48061a22-0203-de54-5a44-89773bff1e63@suse.cz> References: <20161121154336.GD19750@merlins.org> <0d4939f3-869d-6fb8-0914-5f74172f8519@suse.cz> <20161121215639.GF13371@merlins.org> <20161122160629.uzt2u6m75ash4ved@merlins.org> <48061a22-0203-de54-5a44-89773bff1e63@suse.cz> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:38:47 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: u0AhvlaNFvtkeGXTfqJuUWTJjCc Message-ID: Subject: Re: 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free To: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Marc MERLIN , linux-mm , Michal Hocko , LKML , Joonsoo Kim , Tejun Heo , Greg Kroah-Hartman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 462 Lines: 13 On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the testing. So what do we do now about 4.8? (4.7 is > already EOL AFAICS). > > - send the patch [1] as 4.8-only stable. I think that's the right thing to do. It's pretty small, and the argument that it changes the oom logic too much is pretty bogus, I think. The oom logic in 4.8 is simply broken. Let's get it fixed. Changing it is the point. Linus