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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: __count_immobile_pages make sure the node is online
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:26:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120112132629.345e0e37.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120112123555.GF1042@tiehlicka.suse.cz>

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:35:55 +0100
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Thu 12-01-12 11:14:15, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:05:21AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > Be aware that this is not the version picked up by Andrew. It would
> > not hurt to resend as V2 with a changelog and a note saying it replaces
> > mm-fix-null-ptr-dereference-in-__count_immobile_pages.patch in mmotm.

They're rather different things? According to the changelogs,
mm-fix-null-ptr-dereference-in-__count_immobile_pages.patch fixes a
known-to-occur oops. 
mm-__count_immobile_pages-make-sure-the-node-is-online.patch fixes a
bug which might happen in the future if we change the node_zones layut?

So I'm thinking that
mm-fix-null-ptr-dereference-in-__count_immobile_pages.patch is 3.3 and
-stable material, whereas this patch
(mm-__count_immobile_pages-make-sure-the-node-is-online.patch) is 3.3
material.  (Actually, it's 3.4 material which I shall stuff into 3.3
because the amount of MM material which we're putting into 3.3 is just
off the charts and I fear that 3.4 will be similar)

> > This is just in case the wrong one gets merged due to this thread
> > getting lost in the noise of Andrew's inbox.

It won't get lost, but there's a higher-than-usual chance of delays if
the patch happens during the merge window: if I see a lengthy patch
thread I'll move it into my to-apply folder for consideration later on.
So I will look at it, but it might be after the merge window.  We can
still apply a fix after the merge window of course, but this all might
end up leaving buggy code in the tree for longer than we'd like.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-12 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-10 16:30 [PATCH] mm: Fix NULL ptr dereference in __count_immobile_pages Michal Hocko
2012-01-10 21:31 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-11  8:48   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-12  2:17     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-12  8:27       ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-12  8:35         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-12  9:23           ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-12  9:33             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-12 10:05               ` [PATCH] mm: __count_immobile_pages make sure the node is online Michal Hocko
2012-01-12 11:14                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-12 12:35                   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-12 21:26                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-01-12 21:39                       ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-13 10:04                       ` Mel Gorman
2012-01-11 22:34 ` [PATCH] mm: Fix NULL ptr dereference in __count_immobile_pages Andrew Morton
2012-01-12  8:21   ` Michal Hocko

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