From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750857AbYHLE5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:57:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750849AbYHLE5g (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:57:36 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37626 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbYHLE5f (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:57:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:56:33 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, yamamoto@valinux.co.jp, menage@google.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp, xemul@openvz.org, hugh@veritas.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 1/2] mm owner fix race between swap and exit Message-Id: <20080811215633.f8f5406d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <48A10C4C.6020009@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20080811100719.26336.98302.sendpatchset@balbir-laptop> <20080811100733.26336.31346.sendpatchset@balbir-laptop> <20080811173138.71f5bbe4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <48A10C4C.6020009@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:36:36 +0530 Balbir Singh wrote: > > This patch applies to mainline, 2.6.27-rc2 and even 2.6.26. > > > > Against which kernel/patch is it actually applicable? > > > > (If the answer was "all of the above" then please don't go embedding > > mainline bugfixes in the middle of a -mm-only patch series!) > > Andrew, > > The answer is all, but the bug is not exposed *outside* of the memrlimit > controller, thus the push into -mm. I can redo and rework the patches for > mainline if required and pull it out of -mm. OK, I'll move it into the general MM patchpile for 2.6.28. It will precede any memrlimit merge.