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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:58:27 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, stable-review@...nel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [2/3] mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard
 page

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Still. A doubly-linked list is totally trivial, and I just bet I have
> a bug in there somewhere. But looking at your 2007 patch and mine
> side-by-side, I do think mine is still less scary. 

For sure, and if you need it in a hurry your patch is much saner.

So if you feel like its required for .36 go for it, we can look at
cleaning it up for .37 or somesuch.


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