linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.18-rc7

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:56:55 -0700
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        youling 257 <youling257@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.18-rc7

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:40 PM Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> This ashmem change ^^ worked too.
>
> Ok, let's go for that one and hope it's the only one.
>
> John, can I get a proper commit message and sign-off for that ashmem change?

Will do. Just doing some local testing myself to make sure all is well.

> Kirill - you mentioned that somebody reproduced a problem on x86-64
> too. I didn't see that report. Was that some odd x86 Android setup
> with Ashmem too, or is there something else pending?

Krill mentioned "zygote crashing, but on x86-64" and zygote is Android
so I assume it is the same issue.

thanks
-john