From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yk0-f178.google.com (mail-yk0-f178.google.com [209.85.160.178]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7239D6B0032 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:59:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-yk0-f178.google.com with SMTP id 20so10632539yks.9 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:59:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 84si9959466ykz.71.2015.01.12.15.59.36 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:59:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:59:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] OOM vs PM freezer fixes Message-Id: <20150112155935.21b13bc41417ceedde9d640f@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1420801555-22659-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz> References: <1420801555-22659-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo , "\\\"Rafael J. Wysocki\\\"" , David Rientjes , Johannes Weiner , Oleg Nesterov , Cong Wang , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:05:50 +0100 Michal Hocko wrote: > Hi, I've been cheerily ignoring this discussion, sorry. I trust everyone's all happy and ready to go with this? > [what changed since the last patchset] > > ... > > [testing results] > > ... > > [overview of the 5 patches] > > ... > That's nice, but it doesn't really tell us what the patchset does. The first paragraph of the [5/5] changelog provides hints, but doesn't explain why we even need to fix a race which is "quite small and really unlikely". So... could we please have a few words describing the overall intent and effect of this patchset? Thanks. -- 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