From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:43:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120907094300.GY11266@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA7KLmrZGDdaA0zc8nXf3sidwN2VUjWC_k6AjVwHq0dcvg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:40:21AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:36:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >> This is a rebase with some small changes to Kosaki's "mempolicy memory
> >> corruption fixlet" series. I had expected that Kosaki would have revised
> >> the series by now but it's been waiting a long time.
> >>
> >> Changelog since V1
> >> o Rebase to 3.6-rc2
> >> o Editted some of the changelogs
> >> o Converted sp->lock to sp->mutex to close a race in shared_policy_replace()
> >> o Reworked the refcount imbalance fix slightly
> >> o Do not call mpol_put in shmem_alloc_page.
> >>
> >> I tested this with trinity with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled and it passed. I
> >> did not test LTP such as Josh reported a problem with or with a database that
> >> used shared policies like Andi tested. The series is almost all Kosaki's
> >> work of course. If he has a revised series that simply got delayed in
> >> posting it should take precedence.
> >
> > I meant to add Josh to the cc, adding him now.
>
> Thank you.
>
> I see Andi has done some testing and Acked this patchset. Christoph
> appears to have Acked it as well. Is there anything else needed for
> it to get in mainline?
Not that I'm aware of.
> Just want to make sure this doesn't get dropped
> because we all forgot about it after KS/Plumbers.
>
Right now it's in linux-next via Andrew. Bar major surprises I expect
it'll end up in mainline in due course. When it does, I'll do a -stable
backport.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:43:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120907094300.GY11266@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA7KLmrZGDdaA0zc8nXf3sidwN2VUjWC_k6AjVwHq0dcvg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:40:21AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:36:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >> This is a rebase with some small changes to Kosaki's "mempolicy memory
> >> corruption fixlet" series. I had expected that Kosaki would have revised
> >> the series by now but it's been waiting a long time.
> >>
> >> Changelog since V1
> >> o Rebase to 3.6-rc2
> >> o Editted some of the changelogs
> >> o Converted sp->lock to sp->mutex to close a race in shared_policy_replace()
> >> o Reworked the refcount imbalance fix slightly
> >> o Do not call mpol_put in shmem_alloc_page.
> >>
> >> I tested this with trinity with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled and it passed. I
> >> did not test LTP such as Josh reported a problem with or with a database that
> >> used shared policies like Andi tested. The series is almost all Kosaki's
> >> work of course. If he has a revised series that simply got delayed in
> >> posting it should take precedence.
> >
> > I meant to add Josh to the cc, adding him now.
>
> Thank you.
>
> I see Andi has done some testing and Acked this patchset. Christoph
> appears to have Acked it as well. Is there anything else needed for
> it to get in mainline?
Not that I'm aware of.
> Just want to make sure this doesn't get dropped
> because we all forgot about it after KS/Plumbers.
>
Right now it's in linux-next via Andrew. Bar major surprises I expect
it'll end up in mainline in due course. When it does, I'll do a -stable
backport.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-20 16:36 [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2 Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages" Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] mempolicy: Remove mempolicy sharing Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-22 19:03 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-22 19:03 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-22 19:33 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-22 19:33 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-22 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-22 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 3/5] mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 19:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-07 22:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-09-07 22:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 4/5] mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy() Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 19:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-21 7:15 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 7:15 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 15:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-21 15:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 16:36 ` [PATCH 5/5] mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma() Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-20 19:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-20 19:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-21 7:26 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 7:26 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 15:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-21 15:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-07 23:06 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-09-07 23:06 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-08-21 7:29 ` [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2 Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 7:29 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-06 12:40 ` Josh Boyer
2012-09-06 12:40 ` Josh Boyer
2012-09-07 9:43 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-09-07 9:43 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-21 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-21 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
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