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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	will@crowder-design.com, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:56:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090130055639.GA30950@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901291806340.3054@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:08:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> > 
> > Just to confirm. This patch also appear to fix the immediate issue for us.
> 
> Ok, I ended up committing it.
> 
> I didn't do the whole "Cc: stable@kernel.org" thing, because maybe the 
> non-cleanup version is less controversial for stable, but I decided that 
> there's no way I don't want the cleanup done in mainline kernel, and if we 
> end up needing a few VM_IO's added, I think it's worth it. Even after -rc3 
> (since I suspend we won't actually need them).

Which version was the "non-cleanup" version that should be added to the
stable trees?

The commit you did make, de33c8db5910cda599899dd431cc30d7c1018cbf,
seemed pretty "tiny" to me.

confused,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bb4a86c70901281151w4300605r3882461cd6e9774a@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901281316450.3123@localhost.localdomain>
2009-01-29 20:03   ` [PATCH] Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments Lee Schermerhorn
2009-01-29 20:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-29 20:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-29 22:32         ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-29 23:02           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30  4:43             ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-01-30  4:49               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-29 22:47         ` Maksim Yevmenkin
2009-01-29 22:48           ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-29 23:31             ` Maksim Yevmenkin
2009-01-30  2:08           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30  5:56             ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-30 16:36               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30 17:40                 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-30 18:14                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30 18:30                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-30 19:53                     ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-01-30 20:31                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30 21:12                         ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-30 21:25                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30 21:36                           ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-01-30 22:27                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-31 12:35                               ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-31 18:34                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-02 11:59                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-02 12:54                                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-02 14:10                                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-02 18:58                                         ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-02 19:23                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-02 21:50                                             ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-02 22:12                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-02 22:35                                                 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-02 18:33                                       ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-03 16:13                                 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-02-03 16:40                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-03 17:10                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-02-03 21:50                                     ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-01-30 21:37                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-31 12:16                             ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-30 20:33                       ` Hugh Dickins
2009-01-30 20:53                       ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-30 20:59                         ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-01-30 21:11                           ` Will Crowder
2009-01-30 23:44                   ` Greg KH
2009-01-30  8:34         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 16:45           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30 16:49             ` Randy Dunlap

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