Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752615AbZJXGs4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:48:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752510AbZJXGsz (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:48:55 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:56654 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752487AbZJXGsy (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:48:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4AE2A333.6060307@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:48:19 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Mel Gorman , Frans Pop , Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , Tobias Oetiker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , David Miller , Reinette Chatre , Kalle Valo , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mohamed Abbas , Jens Axboe , "John W. Linville" , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stephan von Krawczynski , Kernel Testers List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, " \" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org"@cs.helsinki.fi Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP_ATOMIC failures V2 References: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <84144f020910220747nba30d8bkc83c2569da79bd7c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 868 Lines: 20 On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> These are pretty obvious bug fixes and should go to linux-next ASAP IMHO. Christoph Lameter wrote: > Bug fixes go into main not linux-next. Lets make sure these fixes really > work and then merge. Regardless, patches 1-2 and should _really_ go to Linus' tree (and eventually -stable) while we figure out the rest of the problems. They fix obvious regressions in the code paths and we have reports from people that they help. Yes, they don't fix everything for everyone but we there's no upside in holding back fixes that are simple one line fixes to regressions. Pekka -- 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/