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From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, ak@linux.intel.com,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm hugetlb x86: add hugepage support to pagemap
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:08:59 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1EF8AB.6010806@ah.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091208143928.f3aa0ad2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> I kind of dislike the practice of putting all the changelog in patch
> [0/n] and then leaving the patches themselves practically
> unchangelogged.  Because

Sorry, I agree.

> 
> a) Someone (ie: me) needs to go and shuffle all the text around so
>    that the information gets itself into the git record.  We don't add
>    changelog-only commits to git!
> 
> b) Someone (ie: me) might decide to backport a subset of the patches
>    into -stable.  Now someone (ie: me) needs to carve up the changelogs
>    so that the pieces which go into -stable still make standalone sense.
> 
> I'm not sure that I did this particularly well in this case.  Oh well.
> 
> 
> Please confirm that
> mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-in-walk_page_range.patch is
> suitable for a -stable backport without inclusion of
> mm-hugetlb-add-hugepage-support-to-pagemap.patch.  I think it is.
> 

I think that's OK.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-09  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-07  7:59 Naoya Horiguchi
2009-12-08 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-09  1:08   ` Naoya Horiguchi [this message]

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