linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/3] bootmem rewrite

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 18:10:05 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, andi@...stfloor.org,
	yhlu.kernel@...il.com, ralf@...ux-mips.org, rth@...ddle.net,
	rmk@....linux.org.uk, tony.luck@...el.com, takata@...ux-m32r.org,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, kyle@...isc-linux.org, paulus@...ba.org,
	lethal@...ux-sh.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] bootmem rewrite

On Thu, 22 May 2008 02:33:45 +0200 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> wrote:

> > Anyway, if you can redo these patches against most-recent-mm or,
> > better, against http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm then it would
> > make things easier for me to handle.  I can then at least test it all
> > on my seven-odd test boxes.  Please feel free to ping me if you want a
> > single rolled-up patch - that's always trivial and I can do it in three
> > minutes.
> 
> I guess I just apply the quilt series to the tree you forked off?

yup.  http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/mmotm-readme.txt

> > Finally, if you haven't done so, I'd encourage you to stuff as many
> > handy debugging printks into this code as you possibly can.  Just fill
> > 'er up with them.  So that when people start running it and it goes
> > boom, they can send you their debug output _without_ having to go
> > through another handful of email-email-patch-rebuild-retest cycles.  We
> > can pull them all out later on.
> 
> Okay, I will make it gossip and send you a -mmotm-based version of it.

Good luck :)
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