Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 May 2009 09:56:35 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for hugetlbfs-related problems on shared memory |
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:12:27 +0100 > Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote: > > > The following two patches are required to fix problems reported by > > starlight@binnacle.cx. The tests cases both involve two processes interacting > > with shared memory segments backed by hugetlbfs. > > Thanks. > > Both of these address http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302, yes? > I added that info to the changelogs, to close the loop. >
Yes. I'm sorry, I should have included that information in the leader. I had a niggling feeling I was forgetting something to add to the changelog - this was it :)
> Ingo, I'd propose merging both these together rather than routing one > via the x86 tree, OK? > > Question is: when? Are we confident enough to merge it into 2.6.30 > now, or should we hold off for 2.6.30.1? I guess we have a week or > more, and if the changes do break something, we can fix that in > 2.6.30.1 ;) >
FWIW, I'm reasonably confident based on libhugetlbfs regression testing that I haven't broken something new. If they make it into 2.6.30-rc8, so much the better. Thanks.
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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