Re: 2.6.8.1-mm4

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

wli@holomorphy.com wrote:
>
>  On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:34:02AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm4/
>  > - Added the kexec code.  Again.  This was in -mm a year or so ago but didn't
>  >   make it.
>  > - This kernel has an x86 patch which alters the copy_*_user() functions so
>  >   they will return -EFAULT on a fault rather than the number of bytes which
>  >   remain to be copied.  This is a bit of an experiment, because this seems to
>  >   be the preferred API for those functions.   It's a see-what-breaks thing.
>  >   And things will break.  If weird behaviour is observed, please revert
>  >   usercopy-return-EFAULT.patch and send a report.
> 
>  task_vsize() doesn't need mm->mmap_sem for the CONFIG_MMU case;

I'd prefer it if you (and everyone else) could give a meaningful
English-language Subject: to patches, please.

A well-chosen patch Subject: becomes a sort of globally-unique key by which
the patch is tracked - I munge it into a patch filename and it propagates
all the way into bitkeeper.  It can be used for searching email folders,
googling, inter-developer discussion, etc, etc.

Thanks.