On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:50:29PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 05/13/2010 05:09 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> I'm not very confident in merging all these onto the current MM pile. > > My apologies, I built them onto Linus's latest git > tree (where I know I did get all the anon_vma->lock > instances). > And the instance Andrew ran into was specific to a migration fix in mmotm where it was possible for anon_vma to disappear during migration. > Andrew, Mel, want me to make a version of this series > against -mmotm, or does the migrate & compaction code > need to be modified in some non-obvious way that would > require Mel to create a new compaction series on top > of these anon_vma patches? > I'd like to see a version on top of mmotm at least. It isn't clear to me what order these anon_vma changes were going in. Compaction should not be affected by this series but the fixes to migration are. I'd expect the main collision points to be with these patches. mmmigration-take-a-reference-to-the-anon_vma-before-migrating.patch mmmigration-share-the-anon_vma-ref-counts-between-ksm-and-page-migration.patch -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>