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Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree

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On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2016 10:07 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>>
>> In reviewing the experimental/android-4.4 tree from AOSP, I
>> realized there were a handful of patches to code in the
>> staging/android directory.
>>
>> So I wanted to send these along for review, so if there were
>> no objections they could be queued for 4.6.
>>
>> Let me know if there is any comments or feedback
>
>
> I'm not thrilled about the patches for the cache policy. It certainly
> fixes the problem for x86 but I'd rather see a more unified caching
> approach which would also abstract some of the cache flushing.

Fair enough.

Though I worry that keeping them out of mainline's staging makes it
more difficult to get a proper solution upstream, since it creates
more out of tree variants, which users may have subtle dependencies
on.  But that's more of a general worry then a specific concern here.

thanks
-john

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[PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 7/9] staging: ion: Handle the memory mapping correctly on x86 John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 2/9] staging: ashmem: Add missing include John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 9/9] staging: ion: Fix page pool cache policy John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 8/9] staging: ion: Add X86 dependency for ION_POOL_CACHE_POLICY John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 1/9] staging: ashmem: Avoid deadlock with mmap/shrink John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Make default lowmemorykiller debug message useful John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:20 +0100
  [PATCH 5/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Trace kill events. John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Fix task_struct leak John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Fix task_struct leak Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-07 23:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Fix task_struct leak John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-02-08 20:00 +0100
  [PATCH 6/9] staging: ion: Set minimum carveout heap allocation order to PAGE_SHIFT John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-01-30 07:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/9] staging: ion: Set minimum carveout heap allocation  order to PAGE_SHIFT Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2016-02-01 21:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2016-02-01 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-02-01 22:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-08 00:00 +0100

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