Re: [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to expand_upwards

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:02 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:12 AM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> >> > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> >> > index 56240e7..a7ad8fb 100644
> >> > --- a/init/Kconfig
> >> > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> >> > @@ -1226,6 +1226,7 @@ config SLAB
> >> >           per cpu and per node queues.
> >> >
> >> >  config SLUB
> >> > +       depends on BROKEN || NUMA || !DISCONTIGMEM
> >> >         bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
> >> >         help
> >> >            SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
> >>
> >>
> >> I already sent it to linux-arch and there's been no dissent; there have
> >> been a few "will that fix my slub bug?" type of responses.
> >
> > I was concerned about tile because it actually got all this right by using
> > N_NORMAL_MEMORY appropriately and it uses slub by default, but it always
> > enables NUMA at the moment so this won't impact it.
> >
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> 
> I'm OK with this Kconfig patch. Can someone send a proper patch with
> signoffs and such? Do we want to tag this for -stable too?

I already did here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=130324857801976

I got the wrong linux-mm email address, though (I thought you were on
vger).

I've got a parisc specific patch already for this (also for stable), so
I can just queue this alongside if everyone's OK with that?

James