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SubjectRe: [-mm][PATCH 4/4] Add memrlimit controller accounting and control (v4)
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:38:23 -0700
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [2008-09-18 13:54:30]:
>
> > On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:39:51 +0530
> > Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This patch adds support for accounting and control of virtual address space
> > > limits.
> >
> >
> > Large changes in linux-next's arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c caused damage to
> > the memrlimit patches.
> >
> > I decided to retain the patches because it looks repairable. The
> > problem is this reject from
> > memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-accounting-and-control.patch:
> >
>
> Andrew,
>
> I could not apply mmotm to linux-next (both downloaded right now).

mmotm includes linux-next.patch. mmotm is based upon the most recent
2.6.x-rcy.

This is the only way to do it - I often have to change linux-next.patch
due to rejects and it's unreasonable to expect people to base off the
same version of linux-next as I did.

> I
> applied the patches one-by-one resolving differences starting from #mm
> in the series file.
>
> Here is my fixed version of the patch, I compiled the patch, but could
> not run it, since I could not create the full series of applied
> patches. I compiled arch/x86/kernel/ds.o and ptrace.o. I've included
> the patch below, please let me know if the code looks OK (via review)
> and the patch applies. I'll test it once I can resonably resolve all
> conflicts between linux-next and mmotm.

OK, we'll give it a shot, thanks.



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