Re: Dropped patch: mm/mempolicy.c:sp_lookup()

[Chuck Ebbert]

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?


--Chuck Ebbert  16-Nov-04  22:54:02
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