Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to deallocate failed PUDs

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jul 23 2016 - 15:14:36 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:46 PM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
> <tipbot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Fixing this directly is difficult or impossible because of the awful
> > state of Linux's page table accessors.
>
> Quite frankly, this part of the message is misleading and wrong.

Fair enough - I amended the commit and pushed out the new version.

Thanks,

Ingo