From: KOSAKI Motohiro on
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > But yes, I agree, the problem is minor. But nevertheless it is bug,
> > the longstanding bug with the simple fix. Why should we "hide" this fix
> > inside the long series of non-trivial patches which rewrite oom-killer?
> > And it is completely orthogonal to other changes.
> >
>
> Again, the question is whether or not the fix is rc material or not,
> otherwise there's no difference in the route that it gets upstream: the
> patch is duplicated in both series. If you feel that this minor issue
> (which has never been reported in at least the last three years and
> doesn't have any side effects other than a couple of millisecond delay
> until unuse_mm() when the oom killer will kill something else) should be
> addressed in 2.6.35-rc2, then that's a conversation to be had with Andrew.

Well, we have bugfix-at-first development rule. Why do you refuse our
development process?



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