From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx128.postini.com [74.125.245.128]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B5DB6B0069 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2012 05:43:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:43:00 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Memory policy corruption fixes V2 Message-ID: <20120907094300.GY11266@suse.de> References: <1345480594-27032-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <20120821072901.GD1657@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:40:21AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > 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. > > Thank you. > > I see Andi has done some testing and Acked this patchset. Christoph > appears to have Acked it as well. Is there anything else needed for > it to get in mainline? Not that I'm aware of. > Just want to make sure this doesn't get dropped > because we all forgot about it after KS/Plumbers. > Right now it's in linux-next via Andrew. Bar major surprises I expect it'll end up in mainline in due course. When it does, I'll do a -stable backport. -- 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