From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] vmalloc fixes and improvements #2
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:25:23 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111182523.GB20481@poweredge.glommer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110133515.011510000@suse.de>
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:35:15AM +1100, npiggin@suse.de wrote:
> Hopefully got attribution right.
>
> Patches 1-3 fix "[Bug #11903] regression: vmalloc easily fail", and these
> should go upstream for 2.6.28. They've been tested and shown to fix the
> problem, and I've tested them here on my XFS stress test as well. The
> off-by-one bug, I tested and verified in a userspace test harness (it
> doesn't actually cause any corruption, but just suboptimal use of space).
>
> Patches 4,5 are improvements to information exported to user. Not very risky,
> but not urgent either.
>
> Patches 6,7 improve locking and debugging modes a bit. I have not included
> the changes to guard pages this time. They need a bit more explanation and
> code review to justify. And probably some more philosophical discussions on
> the mm list...
>
> --
ok, news on this one inclusion?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-11 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-10 13:35 npiggin
2008-11-10 13:35 ` [patch 1/7] mm: vmalloc allocator off by one npiggin, Nick Piggin
2008-11-10 13:35 ` [patch 2/7] mm: vmalloc failure flush fix npiggin, Nick Piggin
2008-11-10 13:35 ` [patch 3/7] mm: vmalloc search restart fix npiggin, Glauber Costa
2008-11-10 13:35 ` [patch 4/7] mm: vmalloc tweak failure printk npiggin, Glauber Costa
2008-11-10 13:35 ` [patch 5/7] mm: vmalloc improve vmallocinfo npiggin, Glauber Costa
2008-11-10 13:35 ` [patch 6/7] mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge npiggin, Nick Piggin
2008-11-10 13:35 ` [patch 7/7] mm: vmalloc make lazy unmapping configurable npiggin, Nick Piggin
2008-11-11 18:25 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2008-11-12 3:45 ` [patch 0/7] vmalloc fixes and improvements #2 Nick Piggin
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