From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:25:23 -0200 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] vmalloc fixes and improvements #2 Message-ID: <20081111182523.GB20481@poweredge.glommer> References: <20081110133515.011510000@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081110133515.011510000@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: npiggin@suse.de Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: 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? -- 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