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Message-Id: <20100617103034.FB72.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:51:40 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
	balbir@...ibm.com, oleg@...hat.com
Subject: Re: + oom-select-task-from-tasklist-for-mempolicy-ooms-introduce-find_lock_task_mm-to-fix-mm-false-positives-fix.patch added to -mm tree

> 
> The patch titled
>      oom: introduce find_lock_task_mm to fix mm false positives fix
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      oom-select-task-from-tasklist-for-mempolicy-ooms-introduce-find_lock_task_mm-to-fix-mm-false-positives-fix.patch
> 
> Before you just go and hit "reply", please:
>    a) Consider who else should be cc'ed
>    b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well
>    c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a
>       reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's
> 
> *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
> 
> See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
> out what to do about this
> 
> The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: oom: introduce find_lock_task_mm to fix mm false positives fix
> From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> 
> find_lock_task_mm() should be documented so that we clearly understand
> what it does and why we need it.
> 
> At the same time, remove a stale coment about dereferencing of a local
> variable "mm" in badness() which no longer exists and was removed when
> find_lock_task_mm() was added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>




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