From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] devmem and readahead fixes for 2.6.33 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:39:13 -0800 Message-ID: <20100127013913.GA926@suse.de> References: <20100122045914.993668874@intel.com> <20100122053157.GA8312@suse.de> <20100126165050.6ab7977b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Wu Fengguang , stable@kernel.org, Andi Kleen , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , LKML , Linux Memory Management List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100126165050.6ab7977b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:50:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:31:57 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:59:14PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > > > Here are some good fixes for 2.6.33, they have been floating around > > > with other patches for some time. I should really seperate them out > > > earlier.. > > > > > > Greg, > > > > > > The first two patches are on devmem. 2.6.32 also needs fixing, however > > > the patches can only apply cleanly to 2.6.33. I can do backporting if > > > necessary. > > > > > > [PATCH 1/4] devmem: check vmalloc address on kmem read/write > > > [PATCH 2/4] devmem: fix kmem write bug on memory holes > > > > After these hit Linus's tree, please send the backport to > > stable@kernel.org and I will be glad to queue them up. > > > > I tagged the first two patches for -stable and shall send them in for 2.6.33. > > The second two patches aren't quite as obvious - perhaps a risk of > weird regressions. So I'm thinking I'll send them in for 2.6.34-rc1 > and I tagged them as "[2.6.33.x]" for -stable, so you can feed them > into 2.6.33.x once 2.6.34-rcX has had a bit of testing time, OK? Sounds good to me. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org