linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink

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Date:	Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:00:08 -0500
From:	Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab()

On Dec 1, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Konstantin Khlebnikov's "vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling"
> does change it to `long'.  That patch is in -mm and linux-next and is
> queued for 3.3.  It was queued for 3.2 but didn't make it due to some
> me/Dave Chinner confusion.

I see.  Cool.  Thanks for the pointer.

- xi
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