Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 2008 01:12:39 -0700 | From | Nishanth Aravamudan <> | Subject | Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/5] fix overflow problem of do_try_to_free_page() |
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On 04.05.2008 [21:55:57 +0900], KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > this patch is not part of reclaim throttle series. > it is merely hotfixs. > > --------------------------------------- > "Smarter retry of costly-order allocations" patch series change > behaver of do_try_to_free_pages(). > but unfortunately ret variable type unchanged. > > thus, overflow problem is possible. > > > > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> > CC: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Eep, sorry -- my original version had used -EAGAIN to indicate a special condition, but this was removed before the final patch. Thanks for the catch.
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Should go upstream, as well.
Thanks, Nish
-- Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> IBM Linux Technology Center
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