Re: [PATCHv2 6/8] x86/dump_pagetables: Add support 5-level paging

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 17:39:21 EST


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:15:07AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On current tip/master?

tip/master from Monday:

commit d3b6ed97fbc63219e262faca86da2fe62885eff2 (refs/remotes/tip/master)
Merge: 399c980bd22b f2a6a7050109
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 27 10:48:30 2017 +0200

Merge branch 'x86/mm'

> I'm not sure that collapsing history in one commit to fix bisectability is
> any better than having broken bisectability.

Of course it is better. How do you tell everyone who bisects in the
future to jump over those commits?

So perhaps not a single commit but at least meld those together which
change pagetable walking like the current example and cause a breakage.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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