From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FAE6B0055 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 04:55:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:56:35 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for hugetlbfs-related problems on shared memory Message-ID: <20090528085635.GC10334@csn.ul.ie> References: <1243422749-6256-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20090527131437.5870e342.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090527131437.5870e342.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: mingo@elte.hu, stable@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, starlight@binnacle.cx, ebmunson@us.ibm.com, agl@us.ibm.com, apw@canonical.com, wli@movementarian.org List-ID: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:12:27 +0100 > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > The following two patches are required to fix problems reported by > > starlight@binnacle.cx. The tests cases both involve two processes interacting > > with shared memory segments backed by hugetlbfs. > > Thanks. > > Both of these address http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302, yes? > I added that info to the changelogs, to close the loop. > Yes. I'm sorry, I should have included that information in the leader. I had a niggling feeling I was forgetting something to add to the changelog - this was it :) > Ingo, I'd propose merging both these together rather than routing one > via the x86 tree, OK? > > Question is: when? Are we confident enough to merge it into 2.6.30 > now, or should we hold off for 2.6.30.1? I guess we have a week or > more, and if the changes do break something, we can fix that in > 2.6.30.1 ;) > FWIW, I'm reasonably confident based on libhugetlbfs regression testing that I haven't broken something new. If they make it into 2.6.30-rc8, so much the better. Thanks. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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