From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]vmscan: handle underflow for get_scan_ratio
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:36:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBAAC58.80108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100402180812.646D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
On 04/02/2010 05:13 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>> Yeah, I don't want ignore .33-stable too. if I can't find the root cause
>>> in 2-3 days, I'll revert guilty patch anyway.
>>>
>>
>> It's a good idea to avoid fixing a bug one-way-in-stable,
>> other-way-in-mainline. Because then we have new code in both trees
>> which is different. And the -stable guys sensibly like to see code get
>> a bit of a shakedown in mainline before backporting it.
>>
>> So it would be better to merge the "simple" patch into mainline, tagged
>> for -stable backporting. Then we can later implement the larger fix in
>> mainline, perhaps starting by reverting the "simple" fix.
>
> .....ok. I don't have to prevent your code maintainship. although I still
> think we need to fix the issue completely.
Agreed on the revert.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-06 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 5:53 [PATCH]vmscan: handle underflow for get_scan_ratio Shaohua Li
2010-03-30 6:08 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-30 6:32 ` Shaohua Li
2010-03-30 6:40 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-30 6:53 ` Shaohua Li
2010-03-30 7:31 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-30 8:13 ` Shaohua Li
2010-03-31 4:53 ` Shaohua Li
2010-03-31 5:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-31 5:51 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-03-31 6:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-31 6:03 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-01 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-02 9:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 1:22 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-06 3:36 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-03-31 5:53 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-02 6:50 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-02 9:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-02 9:24 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-04 14:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 1:25 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-06 1:36 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 1:50 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-06 2:06 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 2:30 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-06 2:58 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 3:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-06 3:40 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-06 4:49 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-06 5:09 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-04 0:48 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-06 1:27 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-06 5:03 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-06 5:36 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-09 6:51 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-09 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-09 21:25 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-13 1:30 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-13 2:42 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-13 7:55 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-13 8:55 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-14 1:27 ` Shaohua Li
2010-04-15 3:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-12 1:57 ` Shaohua Li
2010-03-31 5:41 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-03-30 10:17 ` Minchan Kim
2010-03-30 10:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-03-30 11:56 ` Balbir Singh
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