From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:18:57 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.6.24][regression fix] Mempolicy: silently restrict nodemask to allowed nodes V3 In-Reply-To: <20080211210724.eec5421d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080212122637.29B7.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080211210724.eec5421d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: <20080212220916.B1EC.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Lee Schermerhorn , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter , Paul Jackson , David Rientjes , Mel Gorman , linux-mm , Eric Whitney List-ID: Hi > > please ack. > > As it's now post -rc1 and not a 100% obvious thing, I tend to hang onto > such patches for a week or so before sending up to Linus Thanks, really thanks. > Should this be backported to 2.6.24.x? If so, the reasons for such a > relatively stern step should be spelled out in the changelog for the > -stable maintiners to evaluate. Oh, you think below reason is not enough, really? 1. it is regression. 2. it is very easy reprodusable on memoryless node machine. if so, i back down on my backport reclaim. I don't hope increase your headache ;-) thanks. -kosaki -- 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