From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
pj@sgi.com, bcasavan@sgi.com, anton@samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: more numa maxnode confusions
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:23:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040913072308.GB32259@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913001548.278bf672.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:15:48AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:02:53PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > > 2) About Aug 9, Brent Casavant sent in a patch changing the set (not get)
> > > side calls, sys_mbind and sys_set_mempolicy, to N64. This patch
> > > removed the following line from the implementation of get_nodes() in
> > > mm/mempolicy.c:
> > >
> > > --maxnode;
> >
> > Ah, I wasn't aware that this patch got merged into mainline.
> > That was a bad thing, because it broke the ABI used by libnuma
> > subtly.
> >
> > Please whoever merged it revert it.
>
> Revert what?
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@412b8943seoOgs2sAUXJeG1qynkYHQ?nav=index.html|src/|src/mm|related/mm/mempolicy.c
>
> > ...
> >
> > Yes. I appended a patch. Linus or Andrew, please apply it.
> >
>
> Does this patch perform the above reversion, or is something additional
> needed?
It does it, and nothing else is needed.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-13 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 3:02 Paul Jackson
2004-09-13 6:56 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-13 7:08 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-13 7:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-13 7:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-13 8:46 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-13 12:58 ` [PATCH] undo " Paul Jackson
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