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From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:45:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050714094516.A1847@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050713184946.GY23737@wotan.suse.de>; from ak@suse.de on Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:49:47PM +0200

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:49:47PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:44:26AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> I think the patch is too risky for stable. I had even my doubts
> for mainline.

hmm.. Main reason why Andrew posted this for stable series is because of
the memory leak issue mentioned in the patch changeset comments...

We have not seen any stability issues because of this patch so far(its been
there for more than a month in -mm series). Lack of this patch is actually 
causing us more troubles (DOS/app failures/..).

thanks,
suresh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-14 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-13 18:41 [00/11] -stable review Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:42 ` [02/11] [NETFILTER]: revert nf_reset change Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:42 ` [03/11] ppc32: stop misusing ntps time_offset value Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [01/11] If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [04/11] [SHAPER] fix Shaper driver lossage in 2.6.12 Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver Greg KH
2005-07-13 22:01   ` Francois Romieu
2005-07-13 22:13     ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-07-15 19:35       ` Adrian Bunk
2005-07-17 21:09         ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-24 16:08           ` Adrian Bunk
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [06/11] tpm breaks 8139cp Greg KH
2005-07-13 19:09   ` John W. Linville
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [07/11] v4l cx88 hue offset fix Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [08/11] coverity: tty_ldisc_ref return null check Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [09/11] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone" Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [10/11] fix semaphore handling in __unregister_chrdev_region Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:49   ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-13 20:47     ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-07-14 16:45     ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2005-07-15 15:53       ` Justin M. Forbes
2005-07-16  2:17         ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-07-16  4:25           ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-16  5:42             ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2005-07-13 22:05   ` Horst von Brand
2005-07-13 22:36     ` [stable] " Greg KH

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