linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: verify compound order when freeing a page

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Message-ID: <20141015200745.GB17066@node.dhcp.inet.fi>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:07:45 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: verify compound order when freeing a page

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:20:05PM -0700, Yu Zhao wrote:
> This allows us to catch the bug fixed in the previous patch
> (mm: free compound page with correct order).
> 
> Here we also verify whether a page is tail page or not -- tail
> pages are supposed to be freed along with their head, not by
> themselves.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

I didn't give this tag. It's okay in this case, but please do not assume
that you've got Reviewed-by, unless the person said it explicitly.

> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>

Your Singed-off-by should come first.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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