The patch titled readahead: apply max_sane_readahead() limit in ondemand_readahead() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is readahead-apply-max_sane_readahead-limit-in-ondemand_readahead.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: readahead: apply max_sane_readahead() limit in ondemand_readahead() From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Just in case someone aggressively sets a huge readahead size. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/readahead.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/readahead.c~readahead-apply-max_sane_readahead-limit-in-ondemand_readahead mm/readahead.c --- a/mm/readahead.c~readahead-apply-max_sane_readahead-limit-in-ondemand_readahead +++ a/mm/readahead.c @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space bool hit_readahead_marker, pgoff_t offset, unsigned long req_size) { - int max = ra->ra_pages; /* max readahead pages */ + unsigned long max = max_sane_readahead(ra->ra_pages); pgoff_t prev_offset; int sequential; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch readahead-make-mmap_miss-an-unsigned-int.patch readahead-move-max_sane_readahead-calls-into-force_page_cache_readahead.patch readahead-apply-max_sane_readahead-limit-in-ondemand_readahead.patch readahead-remove-one-unnecessary-radix-tree-lookup.patch readahead-increase-interleaved-readahead-size.patch readahead-remove-sync-async-readahead-call-dependency.patch readahead-clean-up-and-simplify-the-code-for-filemap-page-fault-readahead.patch readahead-sequential-mmap-readahead.patch readahead-enforce-full-readahead-size-on-async-mmap-readahead.patch readahead-record-mmap-read-around-states-in-file_ra_state.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