Re: [PATCH 1/2] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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