From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933767AbYEVBMS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 21:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758543AbYEVBMG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 21:12:06 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60761 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757744AbYEVBMD (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 21:12:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:10:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Johannes Weiner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, andi@firstfloor.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, rth@twiddle.net, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com, takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, kyle@parisc-linux.org, paulus@samba.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] bootmem rewrite Message-Id: <20080521181005.6af9474a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <87hccr2n4m.fsf@saeurebad.de> References: <20080521013735.559724194@saeurebad.de> <20080521165735.10c500dc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87hccr2n4m.fsf@saeurebad.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 22 May 2008 02:33:45 +0200 Johannes Weiner wrote: > > Anyway, if you can redo these patches against most-recent-mm or, > > better, against http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm then it would > > make things easier for me to handle. I can then at least test it all > > on my seven-odd test boxes. Please feel free to ping me if you want a > > single rolled-up patch - that's always trivial and I can do it in three > > minutes. > > I guess I just apply the quilt series to the tree you forked off? yup. http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/mmotm-readme.txt > > Finally, if you haven't done so, I'd encourage you to stuff as many > > handy debugging printks into this code as you possibly can. Just fill > > 'er up with them. So that when people start running it and it goes > > boom, they can send you their debug output _without_ having to go > > through another handful of email-email-patch-rebuild-retest cycles. We > > can pull them all out later on. > > Okay, I will make it gossip and send you a -mmotm-based version of it. Good luck :)