linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] anon_vma: clone the anon

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Message-ID: <g2k28c262361004122116s1fb55791t9dee6bcf56fe8c14@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:16:20 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	sgunderson@...foot.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] anon_vma: clone the anon_vma chain in the right order

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:15:03 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH 3/4] anon_vma: clone the anon_vma chain in the right order
>
> We want to walk the chain in reverse order when cloning it, so that the
> order of the result chain will be the same as the order in the source
> chain.  When we add entries to the chain, they go at the head of the
> chain, so we want to add the source head last.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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