Re: [PATCH]vmscan: handle underflow for get_scan_ratio

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Fri Apr 02 2010 - 05:13:17 EST


> > Yeah, I don't want ignore .33-stable too. if I can't find the root cause
> > in 2-3 days, I'll revert guilty patch anyway.
> >
>
> It's a good idea to avoid fixing a bug one-way-in-stable,
> other-way-in-mainline. Because then we have new code in both trees
> which is different. And the -stable guys sensibly like to see code get
> a bit of a shakedown in mainline before backporting it.
>
> So it would be better to merge the "simple" patch into mainline, tagged
> for -stable backporting. Then we can later implement the larger fix in
> mainline, perhaps starting by reverting the "simple" fix.

.....ok. I don't have to prevent your code maintainship. although I still
think we need to fix the issue completely.


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