From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx178.postini.com [74.125.245.178]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9BB76B0072 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:49:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id xa7so1012281pbc.14 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:49:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:49:15 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to read vm_committed_as In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1352600728-17766-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF930E35B45@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <426367E2313C2449837CD2DE46E7EAF930E39FBC@SN2PRD0310MB382.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: KY Srinivasan , Konrad Wilk , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, andi@firstfloor.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com, mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, yinghan@google.com On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > > > Why? Is xen using it for a different inference? > > > > I think it is good to separate these patches. Dan (copied here) wrote the code for the > > Xen self balloon driver. If it is ok with him I can submit the patch for Xen as well. > > Hi KY -- > > If I understand correctly, this would be only a cosmetic (function renaming) change > to the Xen selfballooning code. If so, then I will be happy to Ack when I > see the patch. However, Konrad (konrad.wilk@oracle.com) is the maintainer > for all Xen code so you should ask him... and (from previous painful experience) > it can be difficult to sync even very simple interdependent changes going through > different maintainers without breaking linux-next. So I can't offer any > help with that process, only commiseration. :-( > I think this should be done in the same patch as the function getting introduced with a cc to Konrad and routed through -mm; even better, perhaps he'll have some useful comments for how this is used for xen that can be included for context. -- 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