The patch titled Subject: mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix fix typo, per Rik Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/rmap.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/rmap.c~mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix mm/rmap.c --- a/mm/rmap.c~mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix +++ a/mm/rmap.c @@ -244,9 +244,10 @@ static inline void unlock_anon_vma_root( * If dst->anon_vma is NULL this function tries to find and reuse existing * anon_vma which has no vmas and only one child anon_vma. This prevents * degradation of anon_vma hierarchy to endless linear chain in case of - * constantly forking task. In other hand anon_vma with more than one child - * isn't reused even if was no alive vma, thus rmap walker has a good chance - * to avoid scanning whole hieraryhy when it searches where page is mapped. + * constantly forking task. On the other hand, an anon_vma with more than one + * child isn't reused even if there was no alive vma, thus rmap walker has a + * good chance of avoiding scanning the whole hierarchy when it searches where + * page is mapped. */ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch lib-show_mem-this-patch-adds-cma-reserved-infromation.patch mailmap-update-akpm-osdlorg.patch mm-introduce-do_shared_fault-and-drop-do_fault-fix-fix.patch mm-page_allocc-__alloc_pages_nodemask-dont-alter-arg-gfp_mask.patch mm-page_allocc-__alloc_pages_nodemask-dont-alter-arg-gfp_mask-fix.patch mm-prevent-endless-growth-of-anon_vma-hierarchy-fix.patch input-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer.patch o2dlm-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-o2dlm_blocking_ast_wrapper.patch ocfs2-add-functions-to-add-and-remove-inode-in-orphan-dir.patch mm.patch mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation.patch x86-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch sparc-add-pmd_-for-thp-fix.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch linux-next.patch drivers-gpio-gpio-zevioc-fix-build.patch tools-testing-selftests-makefile-alphasort-the-targets-list.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html