On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:40:21AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:36:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > >> This is a rebase with some small changes to Kosaki's "mempolicy memory > >> corruption fixlet" series. I had expected that Kosaki would have revised > >> the series by now but it's been waiting a long time. > >> > >> Changelog since V1 > >> o Rebase to 3.6-rc2 > >> o Editted some of the changelogs > >> o Converted sp->lock to sp->mutex to close a race in shared_policy_replace() > >> o Reworked the refcount imbalance fix slightly > >> o Do not call mpol_put in shmem_alloc_page. > >> > >> I tested this with trinity with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled and it passed. I > >> did not test LTP such as Josh reported a problem with or with a database that > >> used shared policies like Andi tested. The series is almost all Kosaki's > >> work of course. If he has a revised series that simply got delayed in > >> posting it should take precedence. > > > > I meant to add Josh to the cc, adding him now. > > Thank you. > > I see Andi has done some testing and Acked this patchset. Christoph > appears to have Acked it as well. Is there anything else needed for > it to get in mainline? Not that I'm aware of. > Just want to make sure this doesn't get dropped > because we all forgot about it after KS/Plumbers. > Right now it's in linux-next via Andrew. Bar major surprises I expect it'll end up in mainline in due course. When it does, I'll do a -stable backport. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>