Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753136Ab3CFQ7j (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:59:39 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45393 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752851Ab3CFQ7h (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:59:37 -0500 Message-ID: <51377566.6060907@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:57:10 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Henrik Rydberg , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: Linux 3.9-rc1 References: <20130306080642.GA535@polaris.bitmath.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 28 On 03/06/2013 08:08 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote: >> >> Or not. ;-) This commit breaks boot on my MacBookAir3,1: >> >> commit 8d57470d8f859635deffe3919d7d4867b488b85a >> Author: Yinghai Lu >> Date: Fri Nov 16 19:38:58 2012 -0800 >> >> x86, mm: setup page table in top-down > > Argh. The whole page table setup crud is scarily fragile. > Yes. The design of the new code should be much more robust by design, but of course all the corner cases got shifted around... -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/