On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 22:07 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Linux Kernel 5.2 is completely unusable on most of my systems. The > > problem seems to be something to do with memory compaction causing > > intervals where the system becomes unresponsive. > > > > This is definitely an upstream issue (my laptop running the > > upstream kernel is displaying the problem as well) so this bug is > > really just a warning not to deploy the 5.2 kernel until a fix is > > found. > > If so, could you point where it was reported upstream so we can set > accorrdingly where it has been forwarded to?
Well the initial incarnation of this upstream patch set https://marc.info/?t=156762689300003 Seems to fix the problem in my testbeds. I'm testing out the first two patches only at the moment. James