From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
davem@davemloft.net, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] get_unmapped_area checks for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED on sparc32
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 18:18:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509161834.GA13133@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120509080705.GA3516@pinguin>
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:07:08PM +0400, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:40:19PM +0400, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> > > Move check for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED in sparc32's arch_get_unmapped_area().
> >
> > I would be good to copy relevant parts of your cover letter into each patch.
> > when the patches are applied we looses the cover letter...
> >
>
> In my opinion patches are quite trivial and self-explained. However,
> if there are requests to update patches in this way I'll do it in v2.
The cahngelog say this:
Move check for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED in sparc32's arch_get_unmapped_area().
And this is exactly what the code does.
But neither say anything WHY this is done.
And if that WHY is not explained then the changelog is not good.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-08 14:40 [PATCH 0/6] get rid of extra check for TASK_SIZE in get_unmapped_area Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-08 14:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] get_unmapped_area checks for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED on arm Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-08 14:40 ` [PATCH 2/6] get_unmapped_area checks for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED on sh Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-08 14:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] get_unmapped_area checks for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED on sparc32 Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-08 16:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-09 8:07 ` Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-09 16:18 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2012-05-09 18:04 ` Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-08 17:00 ` David Miller
2012-05-08 14:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] get_unmapped_area checks for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED on sparc64 Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-08 17:00 ` David Miller
2012-05-08 14:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] get_unmapped_area checks for TASK_SIZE before MAP_FIXED on x86_64 Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-08 14:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] get_unmapped_area remove extra check for TASK_SIZE Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-09 16:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] get rid of extra check for TASK_SIZE in get_unmapped_area Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-09 17:56 ` Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-09 18:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-10 3:01 ` Vladimir Murzin
2012-05-10 7:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-05-10 18:08 ` Vladimir Murzin
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