From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758153AbYEEINR (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 04:13:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755668AbYEEIMp (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 04:12:45 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:43972 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755223AbYEEIMn (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 04:12:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 01:12:39 -0700 From: Nishanth Aravamudan To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: LKML , linux-mm , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/5] fix overflow problem of do_try_to_free_page() Message-ID: <20080505081239.GB22105@us.ibm.com> References: <20080504201343.8F52.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080504215331.8F55.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080504215331.8F55.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.25-mm1-00024-g164d446 (x86_64) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04.05.2008 [21:55:57 +0900], KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > this patch is not part of reclaim throttle series. > it is merely hotfixs. > > --------------------------------------- > "Smarter retry of costly-order allocations" patch series change > behaver of do_try_to_free_pages(). > but unfortunately ret variable type unchanged. > > thus, overflow problem is possible. > > > > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro > CC: Nishanth Aravamudan Eep, sorry -- my original version had used -EAGAIN to indicate a special condition, but this was removed before the final patch. Thanks for the catch. Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Should go upstream, as well. Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan IBM Linux Technology Center