Re: [PATCH][V2] Make get_user_pages interruptible

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

Hi Ben,

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Ying Han wrote:
> > --Ying
> > 
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:07 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Paul Menage wrote:
> > >
> > >> No, I didn't exactly write it originally - the only thing I added in
> > >> our kernel was the use of sigkill_pending() rather than checking for
> > >> TIF_MEMDIE.
> > >>
> > >
> > > That's what this patch does, its title just appears to be wrong since it
> > > was already interruptible.
> > >
> > 
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> The linux-mm list has a tiresome habit of removing one line at the top.
> 
> For a year or so I used to wonder why Christoph Lameter sent so many
> empty messages in response to patches: at last I realized he was
> sending a single-line Acked-by: which linux-mm kindly removed.
> 
> I grow tired of it, but forget who to report it to: Rik is sure to know.
> 
> Ah, looking at the raw mailbox, I see
> 
> ...
> X-Loop:	owner-majordomo@kvack.org
> David:	I made the two fixes and posted another thread as [PATCH][V3]
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Nov 2008 17:39:37.0205 (UTC) FILETIME=[9EEC5A50:01C94E5B]
> ...
> 
> so it looks as if a first line with a colon gets treated as header.
> 
> Of course, in your case, it serves you right for top-posting ;)

Thanks to Andrew for reminding me that you're the man for linux-mm:
see from the above, I have a gripe - please, something you could fix?

Thanks a lot,
Hugh

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