From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx161.postini.com [74.125.245.161]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C5FB6B0002 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:47:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:47:38 -0400 From: Naoya Horiguchi Message-ID: <1364500058-epefjxd9-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> In-Reply-To: <20130328193901.GQ9079@decadent.org.uk> References: <1364485358-8745-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <1364485358-8745-2-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <20130328155109.GA13075@kroah.com> <1364486669-10tbmvlb-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <20130328193901.GQ9079@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Konstantin Khlebnikov On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 07:39:01PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:04:29PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > [...] > > I guess you mean this patch violates one/both of these rules: > > > > - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things > > marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real > > security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something > > critical. > > - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream). > > > > I'm not sure if the problem "we can't get any hugepage in coredump" > > is considered as 'some "oh, that's not good" issue'. > > But yes, it's not a critical one. > > If you mean I violated the second rule, sorry, I'll get it into upstream first. > > The second rule is the clear one. If you are submitting a patch to > a subsystem maintainer and you want it to go into stable branches as > well, you must put 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org' in the commit message, > not just the mail header. Got it. Thank you. Naoya -- 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