Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2012 19:55:07 +0900 | From | Minchan Kim <> | Subject | Re: [ 31/82] mm/vmalloc.c: change void* into explict vm_struct* |
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:41:57AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> > > > > commit db1aecafef58b5dda39c4228debe2c845e4a27ab upstream. > > > > vmap_area->private is void* but we don't use the field for various purpose > > but use only for vm_struct. So change it to a vm_struct* with naming to > > improve for readability and type checking. > > > > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> > > I'm not sure this is stable material and it wasn't annotated as such when > it was commited, why should someone need to upgrade their 3.2 for a patch > like this?
I agree. It's not a stable material. Thanks.
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