linux-kernel - Re: + fix-hugetlb-memory-check-in-vma_dump

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Date:	Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:32:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mm-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + fix-hugetlb-memory-check-in-vma_dump_size.patch added to -mm
 tree

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> >Just for the record. It should be stable for 3.7+ since (314e51b98)
> >becuase then have lost VM_RESERVED check which used to stop hugetlb
> >mappings.

Ah, that's subtle, thanks for pointing it out.  Andrew, please annotate 
this only for 3.7+.
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