linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFztNx+pzmEtEDanuvT7mx5=csAQ_pUXzMJHG1yyu81Tzg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2012 12:03:50 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, hughd@...gle.com, sivanich@....com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
>
> Well shm support needs memory policies to spread data across nodes etc.
> AFAICT support was put in due to requirements to support large database
> vendors (oracle). Andi?
>
> Its not going to be easy to remove.

Ok. So can the people involved with this please review this patch-set
and comment on this one? I think it needs a bit of language editing
for the commit commentary, and I'd like it to see a *lot * of ack's
from the relevant vm people.

Please?

                      Linus
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