From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Mlock: make mlock error return Posixly Correct From: Lee Schermerhorn In-Reply-To: <84144f020808200317w71047efci51b23036e15c2eb4@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080819210509.27199.6626.sendpatchset@lts-notebook> <20080819210545.27199.5276.sendpatchset@lts-notebook> <84144f020808200317w71047efci51b23036e15c2eb4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:26:33 -0400 Message-Id: <1219249593.6075.18.camel@lts-notebook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pekka Enberg Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , akpm@linux-foundation.org, riel@redhat.com, linux-mm List-ID: On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:17 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Lee, > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Lee Schermerhorn > wrote: > > Against: 2.6.27-rc3-mmotm-080816-0202 > > > > Rework Posix error return for mlock(). > > > > Translate get_user_pages() error to posix specified error codes. > > It would be nice if the changelog explained why this matters (i.e. why > we need this). OK. This patch is actually moving code that was introduced upstream in another earlier patch that explained the rationale. I'll include a pointer to that and a summary of why. I need to respin this patch anyway. I'll update the description when I resend. Thanks, Lee -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org