linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Don't mlock guardpage if the stack is growing up

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Date:	Mon, 9 May 2011 16:25:23 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't mlock guardpage if the stack is growing up

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, I'll consider it tested. I'll commit it with Mikulas as author,
> but note that I edited it so he won't get the blame if there's some
> problem.

Oh, and I marked it for stable too, although I don't know if any
distribution really cares about parisc or ia64. And I'm not sure that
ia64 even saw the lvm2 failure case - I'd have expected to hear about
it if it actually happens there.

                       Linus
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