linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 13:52:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes



On Mon, 18 May 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> So we always had that write=0 mapping. And we did not notice that we
> always faulted in the futex functions which modify the user space
> variable simply because the fault was fixed up in the private futex
> fault handling code. The removal of that code led to the problem which
> we have right now.
> 
> Correct fix below.

Ok, this looks fine to me. 

Should I take it like this, or pull from something?

		Linus
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