linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the cgroup tree

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Message-ID: <20111214181131.GG10791@somewhere.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:11:34 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the cgroup tree

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:08:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:16:31 +0100 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > cgroups: new cancel_attach_task() subsystem callback
> > > cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation on bounded ancestor
> > > cgroups: add res counter common ancestor searching
> > > res_counter: allow charge failure pointer to be null
> > > cgroups: pull up res counter charge failure interpretation to caller
> > > cgroups: allow subsystems to cancel a fork
> > > cgroups: add a task counter subsystem
> > > cgroups: ERR_PTR needs err.h
> > > cgroup: Fix task counter common ancestor logic
> > > cgroup-fix-task-counter-common-ancestor-logic-checkpatch-fixes
> > > 
> > > I am wondering if that patch set should be included in the cgroup tree?
> > 
> > That would be probably the easier solution.
> > Andrew, do you mind if I rebase these patches and target them to Tejun's
> > tree instead?
> 
> Sure, that works,  I'll drop them.

Cool.

> > We can keep them on a standalone branch there based on Tejuns until
> > we reach an agreement on their upstreamability.
> 
> I wondered what had been happening with that discussion.  I guess we
> need to restart it.
> 

Dan J Walsh and Daniel Berrange who work on lxc and for whom I'm primarily
working on this feature have added their point of view. You might want to
have a look.

I can post something that synthetize everybody's words.
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