Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: correct size of level2_kernel_pgt

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Fri Oct 29 2010 - 13:55:41 EST


On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:45 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/29/2010 10:37 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:22 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >> On 10/29/2010 08:56 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> sizeof(pmd_t *) is 4 bytes on PAE leading to an allocation of only
> >>> 2048 bytes. The correct size is sizeof(pmd_t) giving us a full page
> >>> allocation.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> Applies to mainline since 2.6.36 and to xen.git 2.6.32 based trees
> >> This is just for 2.6.37?
> > 2.6.36.stable too, I think. I added stable@xxxxxxxxxx to my patch header
> > but didn't "guilt refresh" so it didn't show up here.
>
> The extend_brk() stuff was all merged this merge window. I checked out
> .36 to confirm, and there's nothing there for your patch to apply to...

Ah, I was suffering the classic confusion regarding a branch from before
a release getting merged after. Thanks!

Ian.


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