linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/tlb_uv: Fixing some memory allocation failure in x86 UV

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:46:11 +0800
From:	Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, mingo@...hat.com, x86@...nel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, cpw@....com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@....ac.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/tlb_uv: Fixing some memory allocation failure in x86 UV

Thanks for reviewing, I will work on a new version

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> On 06/10/2014 12:35 AM, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
>> > Fixing some memory allocation failure handling in x86 UV
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@....ac.cn>
>>
>> Sorry, this really isn't enough description for this size of a patch.
>
> Correction: This is not a proper description for any patch.
>
> "some" is wrong to begin with.
>
> Either we fix a particular issue or we address all of them, but "some"
> means: We fixed a few, but we did not care about the rest.
>
> Aside of that, I agree. The changelog is disjunct from the patch
> itself.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx
>
>
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