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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: pj@sgi.com, bcasavan@sgi.com, ak@suse.de, anton@samba.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: more numa maxnode confusions
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:15:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040913001548.278bf672.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913065621.GB12185@wotan.suse.de>

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:02:53PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> >  2) About Aug 9, Brent Casavant sent in a patch changing the set (not get)
> >     side calls, sys_mbind and sys_set_mempolicy, to N64.  This patch
> >     removed the following line from the implementation of get_nodes() in
> >     mm/mempolicy.c:
> > 
> > 	--maxnode;
> 
> Ah, I wasn't aware that this patch got merged into mainline. 
> That was a bad thing, because it broke the ABI used by libnuma
> subtly.
> 
> Please whoever merged it revert it.

Revert what?

> ...
>
> Yes. I appended a patch. Linus or Andrew, please apply it.
> 

Does this patch perform the above reversion, or is something additional
needed?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-13  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13  3:02 more numa maxnode confusions Paul Jackson
2004-09-13  6:56 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-13  7:08   ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-13  7:15   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-13  7:23     ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-13  8:46     ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-13 12:58       ` [PATCH] undo " Paul Jackson

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