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SubjectRe: Fix refcounting in hugetlbfs quota handling
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:40 PM, David Gibson
> <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> This patch, therefore, stores a pointer to the inode instead of the
>> address_space in the page private data for hugepages.  More
>> importantly it correctly adjusts the reference count on the inodes
>> when they're added to the page private data.  This ensures that the
>> inode (and therefore the super block) will not be freed before we use
>> it from free_huge_page.
>
> Looks sane, but I *really* want some acks from people who use/know
> hugetlbfs. Who would that be? I'm adding random people who have
> acked/signed-off patches to hugetlbfs recently..

At least, code itself looks good to me but your random choice was failed.
Maybe people you want are as follows.
http://marc.info/?t=126928975800003&r=1&w=2

Ccing right persons.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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