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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Thomas Tuttle" <ttuttle@google.com>
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] pagemap: Require reads of /proc/pid/pagemap to be multiples of 8 (v2 of series)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:37:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080605123732.98dc47fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ca0a85e0806051138q2a6a6aeav941e46c67ee12bd0@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:38:10 -0400
"Thomas Tuttle" <ttuttle@google.com> wrote:

> This matches the behavior of /proc/kpage{count,flags}, and simplifies
> the logic a bit.
> 
> I also changed out and end in struct pagemapread to be u64* instead of
> char*, which makes put_user work the way it was intended.  (Before, it
> was only copying the bottom byte of a pagemap entry, because the target
> of the copy was a char*.)

This one is for 2.6.25.x?

Is so, the maintainers are going to wonder why the heck we sent it to
them.  It does fix a bug, but it is far from clear what that bug is.

Can we have a better description please?

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle

Please include <ttuttle@google.com> in the signoffs.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05 18:38 [PATCH 1/4] pagemap: Require reads of /proc/pid/pagemap to be multiples of 8 (v2 of series) Thomas Tuttle
2008-06-05 19:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-05 20:51   ` Matt Mackall
2008-06-05 22:05     ` Andrew Morton

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