Re: Linux 4.1.28

From: Josh Hunt
Date: Fri Jul 29 2016 - 13:24:36 EST


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/15/2016 07:38 AM, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>
>>> I'm announcing the release of the 4.1.28 kernel.
>>
>> I have a serious memleak with 4.1.28 (like 20mb/s)
>> I stripped down my kernel config and started a bisect, which came to:
>>
>> # first bad commit: [c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6] mm/swap.c:
>> flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival
>> =>
>> commit c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6
>> Author: Lukasz Odzioba <lukasz.odzioba@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri Jun 24 14:50:01 2016 -0700
>>
>> mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival
>>
>>
>> Reverting this on top 4.1.28 helps. Config attached.
>
> Yup, this was reported and a fix is already queued for 4.1.29.

4.1.28 is unusable for us. Do you have an ETA when 4.1.29 will be
available? Also, is the iptables problem reported by Thomas Voegtle
fixed as well?

I do not see any iptables-related changes in the 4.1.y-queue:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable.git/log/?h=linux-4.1.y-queue

Thanks!
--
Josh