From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx128.postini.com [74.125.245.128]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A75C6B0044 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:30:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:30:01 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode Message-Id: <20120315153001.fd97d3fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120315174128.GS6329@redhat.com> References: <1331822671-21508-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com> <20120315171627.GB22255@redhat.com> <20120315174128.GS6329@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Dave Jones , linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , Hugh Dickins , Larry Woodman , Rik van Riel , Ulrich Obergfell , stable@kernel.org On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:41:28 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell > > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli > > > > 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. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org