Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754086Ab2E3UK5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2012 16:10:57 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:48003 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753240Ab2E3UK4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2012 16:10:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1338368529-21784-1-git-send-email-kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 16:10:35 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Mel Gorman , Christoph Lameter , stable@vger.kernel.org, hughd@google.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 28 On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:02 AM, ? wrote: >> >> So, I think we should reconsider about shared mempolicy completely. > > Quite frankly, I'd prefer that approach. The code is subtle and > horribly bug-fraught, and I absolutely detest the way it looks too. > Reading your patches was actually somewhat painful. Oh, very sorry. I made effort to make smallest and simplest patches. But I couldn't I do better. Current MPOL_F_SHARED is cra^H^H^H complex. ;-) > If we could just remove the support for it entirely, that would be > *much* preferable to continue working with this code. > > Could we just try that removal, and see if anybody screams? I'm keeping neutral a while and hope to hear other developers opinion. Thank you. -- 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/