linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree

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Message-ID: <56AFC9C8.2090904@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:10:32 -0800
From:	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree

On 01/29/2016 10:07 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> In reviewing the experimental/android-4.4 tree from AOSP, I
> realized there were a handful of patches to code in the
> staging/android directory.
>
> So I wanted to send these along for review, so if there were
> no objections they could be queued for 4.6.
>
> Let me know if there is any comments or feedback

I'm not thrilled about the patches for the cache policy. It certainly
fixes the problem for x86 but I'd rather see a more unified caching
approach which would also abstract some of the cache flushing.

Thanks,
Laura

>
> thanks
> -john
>
>
> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
>
> Amit Pundir (1):
>    staging: ion: Fix page pool cache policy
>
> Colin Cross (1):
>    staging: lowmemorykiller: Make default lowmemorykiller debug message
>      useful
>
> Daniel Rosenberg (1):
>    staging: ion: Add X86 dependency for ION_POOL_CACHE_POLICY
>
> Laura Abbott (1):
>    staging: ashmem: Avoid deadlock with mmap/shrink
>
> Martijn Coenen (1):
>    staging: lowmemorykiller: Trace kill events.
>
> Rajmal Menariya (1):
>    staging: ion: Set minimum carveout heap allocation order to PAGE_SHIFT
>
> Rom Lemarchand (1):
>    staging: ashmem: Add missing include
>
> San Mehat (1):
>    staging: lowmemorykiller: Fix task_struct leak
>
> Vinil Cheeramvelil (1):
>    staging: ion: Handle the memory mapping correctly on x86
>
>   drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c                |  4 ++-
>   drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig             |  8 +++++
>   drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_carveout_heap.c |  2 +-
>   drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c     |  8 +++++
>   drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_priv.h          | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c   |  8 +++--
>   drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c       | 33 +++++++++++++++-----
>   drivers/staging/android/trace/lowmemorykiller.h | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/staging/android/uapi/ashmem.h           |  1 +
>   9 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/trace/lowmemorykiller.h
>