linux-kernel - Re: + shmem-fix-faulting-into-a-hole-while-its-punched-take-2.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <53BE8B1B.3000808@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:46:19 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	davej@...hat.com, koct9i@...il.com, lczerner@...hat.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + shmem-fix-faulting-into-a-hole-while-its-punched-take-2.patch
 added to -mm tree

On 07/10/2014 03:37 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I do think that the most useful thing you could do at the moment,
> is to switch away from running trinity on -next temporarily, and
> run it instead on Linus's current git or on 3.16-rc4, but with
> f00cdc6df7d7 reverted and my "take 2" inserted in its place.
> 
> That tree would also include Heiko's seq_buf_alloc() patch, which
> trinity on -next has cast similar doubt upon: at present, we do
> not know if Heiko's patch and my patch are bad in themselves,
> or exposing other bugs in 3.16-rc, or exposing bugs in -next.

Funny enough, Linus's tree doesn't even boot properly here. It's
going to take longer than I expected...


Thanks,
Sasha
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