From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:45:04 +0100 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] vmalloc fixes and improvements #2 Message-ID: <20081112034504.GE26053@wotan.suse.de> References: <20081110133515.011510000@suse.de> <20081111182523.GB20481@poweredge.glommer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081111182523.GB20481@poweredge.glommer> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Glauber Costa Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 04:25:23PM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:35:15AM +1100, npiggin@suse.de wrote: > > Hopefully got attribution right. > > > > Patches 1-3 fix "[Bug #11903] regression: vmalloc easily fail", and these > > should go upstream for 2.6.28. They've been tested and shown to fix the > > problem, and I've tested them here on my XFS stress test as well. The > > off-by-one bug, I tested and verified in a userspace test harness (it > > doesn't actually cause any corruption, but just suboptimal use of space). > > > > Patches 4,5 are improvements to information exported to user. Not very risky, > > but not urgent either. > > > > Patches 6,7 improve locking and debugging modes a bit. I have not included > > the changes to guard pages this time. They need a bit more explanation and > > code review to justify. And probably some more philosophical discussions on > > the mm list... > > > > -- > > ok, news on this one inclusion? Just waiting on Andrew. It won't get lost :) -- 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