linux-kernel - Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/2] mm owner fix race between swap and exit

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Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:56:33 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, skumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	yamamoto@...inux.co.jp, menage@...gle.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp,
	xemul@...nvz.org, hugh@...itas.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/2] mm owner fix race between swap and exit

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:36:36 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > This patch applies to mainline, 2.6.27-rc2 and even 2.6.26.
> > 
> > Against which kernel/patch is it actually applicable?
> > 
> > (If the answer was "all of the above" then please don't go embedding
> > mainline bugfixes in the middle of a -mm-only patch series!)
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> The answer is all, but the bug is not exposed *outside* of the memrlimit
> controller, thus the push into -mm. I can redo and rework the patches for
> mainline if required and pull it out of -mm.

OK, I'll move it into the general MM patchpile for 2.6.28.  It will precede
any memrlimit merge.
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