Re: [PATCH] mm: __count_immobile_pages make sure the node is online

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:35:55 +0100
Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu 12-01-12 11:14:15, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:05:21AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > Be aware that this is not the version picked up by Andrew. It would
> > not hurt to resend as V2 with a changelog and a note saying it replaces
> > mm-fix-null-ptr-dereference-in-__count_immobile_pages.patch in mmotm.

They're rather different things? According to the changelogs,
mm-fix-null-ptr-dereference-in-__count_immobile_pages.patch fixes a
known-to-occur oops. 
mm-__count_immobile_pages-make-sure-the-node-is-online.patch fixes a
bug which might happen in the future if we change the node_zones layut?

So I'm thinking that
mm-fix-null-ptr-dereference-in-__count_immobile_pages.patch is 3.3 and
-stable material, whereas this patch
(mm-__count_immobile_pages-make-sure-the-node-is-online.patch) is 3.3
material.  (Actually, it's 3.4 material which I shall stuff into 3.3
because the amount of MM material which we're putting into 3.3 is just
off the charts and I fear that 3.4 will be similar)

> > This is just in case the wrong one gets merged due to this thread
> > getting lost in the noise of Andrew's inbox.

It won't get lost, but there's a higher-than-usual chance of delays if
the patch happens during the merge window: if I see a lengthy patch
thread I'll move it into my to-apply folder for consideration later on.
So I will look at it, but it might be after the merge window.  We can
still apply a fix after the merge window of course, but this all might
end up leaving buggy code in the tree for longer than we'd like.

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