Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, mm: Fix CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G and 2G_OPTtrampoline

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 11 2010 - 09:13:15 EST


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 06:11:30AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:56:14PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > rc2 kernel crashes when booting second cpu on this CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
> > laptop: whereas cloning from kernel to low mappings pgd range does need
> > to limit by both KERNEL_PGD_PTRS and KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, cloning kernel
> > pgd range itself must not be limited by the smaller KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > LKML-Reference: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1008242235120.2515@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c | 3 +--
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Why are you sending this to me? I'm not the x86 maintainer.

Ah, now it makes more sense (seeing 0/3 after 2/3 came in.)

But, for all 3 of these patches, can you please resend them with the git
commit id of the original patch that is in Linus's tree? I need that to
be able to apply them to the stable releases.

thanks,

greg k-h
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