Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:08:19 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dropped patch: mm/mempolicy.c:sp_lookup()
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:54:09PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 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?

Yes. I'm sure Andrea will take care of that himself. 

-Andi
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