Re: [PATCH] slub: assign refcount for kmalloc_caches

Joonsoo Kim
2013-01-29T06:07:42Z

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:32:32PM -0500, CAI Qian wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > To: "Joonsoo Kim" <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> > Cc: "Paul Hargrove" <phhargrove@lbl.gov>, "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
> > linux-mm@kvack.org, "Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:23:36 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: assign refcount for kmalloc_caches
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 04:52:54PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 08:47:39PM -0800, Paul Hargrove wrote:
> > > > I just had a look at patch-3.7.2-rc1, and this change doesn't
> > > > appear to
> > > > have made it in yet.
> > > > Am I missing something?
> > > >
> > > > -Paul
> > >
> > > I try to check it.
> > > Ccing to Greg.
> > >
> > > Hello, Pekka and Greg.
> > >
> > > v3.8-rcX has already fixed by another stuff, but it is not simple
> > > change.
> > > So I made a new patch and sent it.
> > >
> > > How this kind of patch (only for stable v3.7) go into stable tree?
> > > through Pekka's slab tree? or send it to Greg, directly?
> > >
> > > I don't know how to submit this kind of patch to stable tree
> > > exactly.
> > > Could anyone help me?
> >
> > Please redo it, and send it to stable@vger.kernel.org, and say
> > exactly
> > why it isn't in Linus's tree, and that it should only be applied to
> > 3.7-stable.
> I also met this during the testing, so I'll re-send it then.

Hello, CAI Qian.

I totally forget this.
Thanks for this work.