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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 11:13:02 -0400 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mgorman@...e.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm: poison critical mm/ structs On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:23:08AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I think these patches are fine for investigating whatever is the > problem currently afflicting you and mm under trinity; but we all > have our temporary debugging patches, I don't think all deserve > preservation in everyone else's kernel, that amounts to far more > clutter than any are worth. One problem with keeping things like this in -mm (or other non-Linus tree) is that they bit-rot quickly, and become a pain to apply, especially if they are perpetually on top of other changes in -mm. I looked at trying these patches on Linus' tree when Sasha posted them, but lost motivation when I realized they needed other bits of -mm too. It may be that after Andrews 3.18+ mega-merge things would be simpler, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be long before the situation would arise again. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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