Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964966AbWBGDu1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:50:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964967AbWBGDu0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:50:26 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-2-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.71]:50725 "EHLO sj-iport-2.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964966AbWBGDu0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:50:26 -0500 To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Roland Dreier , Kai Makisara , Willem Riede , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [git patch review 2/2] IB: Don't doublefree pages from scatterlist X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <1139070837112-3fe13a3288c20f5c@cisco.com> From: Roland Dreier Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:44:14 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Hugh Dickins's message of "Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:29:59 +0000 (GMT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2006 01:44:14.0572 (UTC) FILETIME=[0035F2C0:01C62B88] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 15 Hugh> It's now looking like this change won't be needed after all: Hugh> Andi has just posted a patch in the "ipr" thread which Hugh> should stop x86_64 from interfering with the scatterlist Hugh> *page,offset,length fields, so what IB and others were doing Hugh> should then work safely (current thinking is that x86_64 is Hugh> the only architecture which coalesced in that way). OK, I'll drop this from my tree. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/