Re: [PATCHv4 00/33] 5-level paging

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 11:03:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We probably need to split it apart:
> >
> >    - Apply the mm core only parts to a branch which can be pulled into
> >      Andrews mm-tree
> >
> >    - Base the x86 changes on top of it
> 
> I'll happily take some of the preparatory patches for 4.11 too. Some
> of them just don't seem to have any downside. The cpuid stuff, and the
> basic scaffolding we could easily merge early. That includes the dummy
> 5level code, ie "5level-fixup.h" and even some of the mm side that
> doesn't actually change anything and just prepares for the real code.

The first 7 patches are relatively low-risk. It would be nice to have them
in earlier.

I'm commited to address any possible drawbacks quickly if you considering
applying it into v4.11.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov