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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Truelove <steven.truelove@utoronto.ca>
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Round up huge page count to avoid allocating too little memory when 'size' argument is not a multiple of the huge page size.
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:31:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120226233111.d54339fe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328804163-24134-1-git-send-email-steven.truelove@utoronto.ca>

On Thu,  9 Feb 2012 11:16:03 -0500 Steven Truelove <steven.truelove@utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Steven Truelove <steven.truelove@utoronto.ca>

Please don't send unchangelogged patches.

What is missing here is any explanation of why we should make this
change.  Is there some kernel bug you have observed?  If so, please
describe it.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 16:16 [PATCH] Round up huge page count to avoid allocating too little memory when 'size' argument is not a multiple of the huge page size Steven Truelove
2012-02-27  7:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-23 13:28 Steven Truelove
2012-02-26 23:46 ` Steven Truelove

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