From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:30:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120315153001.fd97d3fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120315174128.GS6329@redhat.com>
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:41:28 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> >
> > Should probably go to stable too ? How far back does this bug go ?
>
> This goes back to 2.6.38 (included). After it gets a bit more of
> testing and reviews it'll be ok for stable yes.
I'm thinking that we merge it into 3.4-rc1, marked for backporting.
That will give us a bit of time to shake it down in mainline before it
turns up in stable trees. So 3.3 itself will still have the bug.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-15 14:44 [PATCH] mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode Andrea Arcangeli
2012-03-15 16:01 ` Rik van Riel
2012-03-15 16:13 ` Larry Woodman
2012-03-15 17:16 ` Dave Jones
2012-03-15 17:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-03-15 22:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-03-15 18:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-03-15 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-15 23:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-03-15 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-16 8:05 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2012-03-16 11:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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