From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266476AbUHXGTt (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:19:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266568AbUHXGS5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:18:57 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:20198 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266511AbUHXGQl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:16:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:14:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: wli@holomorphy.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm4 Message-Id: <20040823231454.62734afb.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040823202158.GJ4418@holomorphy.com> References: <20040822013402.5917b991.akpm@osdl.org> <20040823202158.GJ4418@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.