Re: [PATCH 1/2] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 07:39:01PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:04:29PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> [...]
> > I guess you mean this patch violates one/both of these rules:
> > 
> >  - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
> >    marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
> >    security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue.  In short, something
> >    critical.
> >  - It or an equivalent fix must already exist in Linus' tree (upstream).
> > 
> > I'm not sure if the problem "we can't get any hugepage in coredump"
> > is considered as 'some "oh, that's not good" issue'.
> > But yes, it's not a critical one.
> > If you mean I violated the second rule, sorry, I'll get it into upstream first.
>  
> The second rule is the clear one.  If you are submitting a patch to
> a subsystem maintainer and you want it to go into stable branches as
> well, you must put 'Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' in the commit message,
> not just the mail header.

Got it. Thank you.
Naoya

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