This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/balloon_compaction: fix deflation when compaction is disabled

to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-balloon_compaction-fix-deflation-when-compaction-is-disabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 4d88e6f7d5ffc84e6094a47925870f4a130555c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:51:02 -0700
Subject: mm/balloon_compaction: fix deflation when compaction is disabled

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>

commit 4d88e6f7d5ffc84e6094a47925870f4a130555c2 upstream.

If CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION=n balloon_page_insert() does not link pages
with balloon and doesn't set PagePrivate flag, as a result
balloon_page_dequeue() cannot get any pages because it thinks that all
of them are isolated.  Without balloon compaction nobody can isolate
ballooned pages.  It's safe to remove this check.

Fixes: d6d86c0a7f8d ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages 
management").
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Matt Mullins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 mm/balloon_compaction.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/balloon_compaction.c
+++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c
@@ -93,11 +93,13 @@ struct page *balloon_page_dequeue(struct
                 * to be released by the balloon driver.
                 */
                if (trylock_page(page)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
                        if (!PagePrivate(page)) {
                                /* raced with isolation */
                                unlock_page(page);
                                continue;
                        }
+#endif
                        spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
                        balloon_page_delete(page);
                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.17/mm-balloon_compaction-fix-deflation-when-compaction-is-disabled.patch
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