From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:40:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+5PVA7KLmrZGDdaA0zc8nXf3sidwN2VUjWC_k6AjVwHq0dcvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120821072901.GD1657@suse.de>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:36:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>> This is a rebase with some small changes to Kosaki's "mempolicy memory
>> corruption fixlet" series. I had expected that Kosaki would have revised
>> the series by now but it's been waiting a long time.
>>
>> Changelog since V1
>> o Rebase to 3.6-rc2
>> o Editted some of the changelogs
>> o Converted sp->lock to sp->mutex to close a race in shared_policy_replace()
>> o Reworked the refcount imbalance fix slightly
>> o Do not call mpol_put in shmem_alloc_page.
>>
>> I tested this with trinity with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled and it passed. I
>> did not test LTP such as Josh reported a problem with or with a database that
>> used shared policies like Andi tested. The series is almost all Kosaki's
>> work of course. If he has a revised series that simply got delayed in
>> posting it should take precedence.
>
> I meant to add Josh to the cc, adding him now.
Thank you.
I see Andi has done some testing and Acked this patchset. Christoph
appears to have Acked it as well. Is there anything else needed for
it to get in mainline? Just want to make sure this doesn't get dropped
because we all forgot about it after KS/Plumbers.
josh
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-20 16:36 Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages" Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] mempolicy: Remove mempolicy sharing Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-22 19:03 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-22 19:33 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-22 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 3/5] mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-07 22:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 4/5] mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy() Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-21 7:15 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 15:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 5/5] mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma() Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-21 7:26 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 15:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-07 23:06 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-08-21 7:29 ` [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2 Mel Gorman
2012-09-06 12:40 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2012-09-07 9:43 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
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