Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Sun Jan 07 2018 - 05:18:58 EST


On Sun 07-01-18 10:11:15, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 06:14:22AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 09:45 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > FYI, this broke kdump, or rather the makedumpfile part thereof.
> >  Forward looking wreckage is par for the kdump course, but...
>
> Is it also broken in Linus's tree with this patch? Or is there an
> add-on patch that I should apply to 4.14 to resolve this issue there?

This one http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513932498-20350-1-git-send-email-bhe@xxxxxxxxxx
I guess.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs