Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752134Ab0G0ChA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:37:00 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:46929 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430Ab0G0Cg6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:36:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple memory sections From: Dave Hansen To: Nathan Fontenot Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , greg@kroah.com In-Reply-To: <4C4A5985.6000206@austin.ibm.com> References: <4C451BF5.50304@austin.ibm.com> <4C451E1C.8070907@austin.ibm.com> <1279653481.9785.4.camel@nimitz> <4C4A5985.6000206@austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ANSI_X3.4-1968" Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:36:52 -0700 Message-ID: <1280198212.16922.422.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 16 On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 22:09 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote: > If we add a lock should I submit it as part of this patchset? or > submit it > as a follow-on? It should probably be at the beginning of the patch set. We don't want to have a case where your set introduces races that we _need_ a later patch to fix. -- Dave -- 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/