Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:38:59 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
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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@kernel.org>
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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