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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] mm: poison critical mm/ structs
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:23:08AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> I think these patches are fine for investigating whatever is the
> problem currently afflicting you and mm under trinity; but we all
> have our temporary debugging patches, I don't think all deserve
> preservation in everyone else's kernel, that amounts to far more
> clutter than any are worth.

One problem with keeping things like this in -mm (or other non-Linus tree)
is that they bit-rot quickly, and become a pain to apply, especially if
they are perpetually on top of other changes in -mm.

I looked at trying these patches on Linus' tree when Sasha posted them,
but lost motivation when I realized they needed other bits of -mm too.

It may be that after Andrews 3.18+ mega-merge things would be simpler,
but I have a feeling it wouldn't be long before the situation would
arise again.

Dave



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