Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:54:09 -0500
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Dropped patch: mm/mempolicy.c:sp_lookup()
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 at 02:00:20 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:15:51PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > Andrea posted this one-liner a while ago as part of a larger patch.  He said
> > it fixed return of the wrong policy in some conditions.  Was this a valid fix?
>
> Yes it was.

  At least it wasn't dropped -- it's in -mm as part of
fix-for-mpol-mm-corruption-on-tmpfs, though it's unrelated to tmpfs.
(That patch contains three separate changes...)

  Should just this part, which changes '<' to '<=', be pushed upstream?


--Chuck Ebbert  16-Nov-04  22:54:02
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