linux-kernel - Re: [patch 5/8] mm: memcg: remove unneeded checks from newpage

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Message-ID: <20111124115816.GA1225@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:58:16 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 5/8] mm: memcg: remove unneeded checks from
 newpage_charge()

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:30:49AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 24-11-11 10:04:09, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
> > Subject: mm: memcg: remove unneeded checks from newpage_charge() fix
> > 
> > Document page state assumptions and catch if they are violated in
> > newpage_charge().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
> 
> I assume you are going to fold it into the previous one.
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

Thanks.

I'm under the assumption that incremental patches are better for
Andrew, but I forgot why.

But yes, this should be folded before going upstream.
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