From: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, riel@redhat.com,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Mlock: make mlock error return Posixly Correct
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:26:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219249593.6075.18.camel@lts-notebook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020808200317w71047efci51b23036e15c2eb4@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:17 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Lee,
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Lee Schermerhorn
> <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote:
> > Against: 2.6.27-rc3-mmotm-080816-0202
> >
> > Rework Posix error return for mlock().
> >
> > Translate get_user_pages() error to posix specified error codes.
>
> It would be nice if the changelog explained why this matters (i.e. why
> we need this).
OK. This patch is actually moving code that was introduced upstream in
another earlier patch that explained the rationale. I'll include a
pointer to that and a summary of why.
I need to respin this patch anyway. I'll update the description when I
resend.
Thanks,
Lee
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 21:05 [Patch 0/6] Mlock: doc, patch grouping and error return cleanups Lee Schermerhorn
2008-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH 1/6] Mlock: fix __mlock_vma_pages_range comment block Lee Schermerhorn, KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH 2/6] Mlock: backout locked_vm adjustment during mmap() Lee Schermerhorn, KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH 3/6] Mlock: resubmit locked_vm adjustment as separate patch Lee Schermerhorn, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH 4/6] Mlock: fix return value for munmap/mlock vma race Lee Schermerhorn, KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-20 8:31 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH 5/6] Mlock: revert mainline handling of mlock error return Lee Schermerhorn, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-08-20 7:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-20 7:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-19 21:05 ` [PATCH 6/6] Mlock: make mlock error return Posixly Correct Lee Schermerhorn, KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-20 8:35 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-20 16:24 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-08-20 17:58 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-08-20 19:04 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-08-22 20:48 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-08-20 10:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-20 16:26 ` Lee Schermerhorn [this message]
2008-08-20 7:21 ` [Patch 0/6] Mlock: doc, patch grouping and error return cleanups KOSAKI Motohiro
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