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Subject: Re: 3.10-rc ppc64 corrupts usermem when swapping
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On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 22:05 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Sure, it's now under way.  If all goes well, I'll give you a
> > progress report in about 15 hours time; but given the variance in
> > how long it took to hit, I won't feel fully confident until this
> > time tomorrow, when I'll update you again.
> 
> Still running fine.  I'll leave it running a few more hours to make
> sure, and then try switching to the patch Aneesh sent afterwards -
> or say if you'd prefer me to switch over to that one immediately.

The patch you are running on is what I'll send to Linus for 3.10 (+/-
cosmetics). Aneesh second patch is a much larger rework which will be
needed for THP but that will wait for 3.11. I'm happy for you to test it
but I first want to make sure it's solid with the 3.10 fix :-)

Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.