From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx109.postini.com [74.125.245.109]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF99F6B005D for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:34:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:29:01 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2 Message-ID: <20120821072901.GD1657@suse.de> References: <1345480594-27032-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1345480594-27032-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Josh Boyer Cc: Dave Jones , Christoph Lameter , Ben Hutchings , Andi Kleen , Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , KOSAKI Motohiro , LKML , Linux-MM On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:36:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > This is a rebase with some small changes to Kosaki's "mempolicy memory > corruption fixlet" series. I had expected that Kosaki would have revised > the series by now but it's been waiting a long time. > > Changelog since V1 > o Rebase to 3.6-rc2 > o Editted some of the changelogs > o Converted sp->lock to sp->mutex to close a race in shared_policy_replace() > o Reworked the refcount imbalance fix slightly > o Do not call mpol_put in shmem_alloc_page. > > I tested this with trinity with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled and it passed. I > did not test LTP such as Josh reported a problem with or with a database that > used shared policies like Andi tested. The series is almost all Kosaki's > work of course. If he has a revised series that simply got delayed in > posting it should take precedence. I meant to add Josh to the cc, adding him now. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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