From: Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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 22:04:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509180409.GB3338@pinguin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120509161834.GA13133@merkur.ravnborg.org>
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:18:34PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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
Ok. I'll update patches in v2.
Best wishes
Vladimir Murzin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 18:06 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
2012-05-09 18:04 ` Vladimir Murzin [this message]
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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