From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx170.postini.com [74.125.245.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCC816B005C for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 14:27:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wgbdt14 with SMTP id dt14so84385wgb.26 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:27:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1338368529-21784-1-git-send-email-kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> References: <1338368529-21784-1-git-send-email-kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:26:41 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Mel Gorman , Christoph Lameter , stable@vger.kernel.org, hughd@google.com, KOSAKI Motohiro On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:02 AM, wrote: > > So, I think we should reconsider about shared mempolicy completely. Quite frankly, I'd prefer that approach. The code is subtle and horribly bug-fraught, and I absolutely detest the way it looks too. Reading your patches was actually somewhat painful. If we could just remove the support for it entirely, that would be *much* preferable to continue working with this code. Could we just try that removal, and see if anybody screams? Linus -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org