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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages to the buddy allocator again
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:16:10 -0400
kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com wrote:

> commit 2ff754fa8f (mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages
> to the buddy allocator again) fixed one free_pcppages_bulk() misuse. But two
> another miuse still exist.

This changelog is irritating. One can understand it a bit if one
happens to have a git repo handy (and why do this to the reader?), but
the changelog for 2ff754fa8f indicates that the patch might fix a
livelock. Is that true of this patch? Who knows...


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