linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for hugetlbfs-related problems on shared memory

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Message-ID: <20090528085635.GC10334@csn.ul.ie>
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 09:56:35 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, stable@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk,
	Lee.Schermerhorn@...com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	starlight@...nacle.cx, ebmunson@...ibm.com, agl@...ibm.com,
	apw@...onical.com, wli@...ementarian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for hugetlbfs-related problems on shared
	memory

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:12:27 +0100
> Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:
> 
> > The following two patches are required to fix problems reported by
> > starlight@...nacle.cx. The tests cases both involve two processes interacting
> > with shared memory segments backed by hugetlbfs.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Both of these address http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302, yes?
> I added that info to the changelogs, to close the loop.
> 

Yes. I'm sorry, I should have included that information in the leader. I
had a niggling feeling I was forgetting something to add to the changelog -
this was it :)

> Ingo, I'd propose merging both these together rather than routing one
> via the x86 tree, OK?
> 
> Question is: when?  Are we confident enough to merge it into 2.6.30
> now, or should we hold off for 2.6.30.1?  I guess we have a week or
> more, and if the changes do break something, we can fix that in
> 2.6.30.1 ;)
> 

FWIW, I'm reasonably confident based on libhugetlbfs regression testing that
I haven't broken something new. If they make it into 2.6.30-rc8, so much
the better. Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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