From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752494AbbALX7i (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:59:38 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37085 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbbALX7g (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:59:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:59:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo , "\\\"Rafael J. Wysocki\\\"" , David Rientjes , Johannes Weiner , Oleg Nesterov , Cong Wang , , LKML , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] OOM vs PM freezer fixes Message-Id: <20150112155935.21b13bc41417ceedde9d640f@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1420801555-22659-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz> References: <1420801555-22659-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-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 Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:05:50 +0100 Michal Hocko wrote: > Hi, I've been cheerily ignoring this discussion, sorry. I trust everyone's all happy and ready to go with this? > [what changed since the last patchset] > > ... > > [testing results] > > ... > > [overview of the 5 patches] > > ... > That's nice, but it doesn't really tell us what the patchset does. The first paragraph of the [5/5] changelog provides hints, but doesn't explain why we even need to fix a race which is "quite small and really unlikely". So... could we please have a few words describing the overall intent and effect of this patchset? Thanks.