Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:20:12 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
       Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
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       Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>, Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>, stable@kernel.org,
       Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@la.checkpoint.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 4/5] x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:09:40AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > >
> > > > You will also need the patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/21/103 to
> > > > make sure reserve_bootmem() is not void (*)().
> > > 
> > > Ok, let me know when that goes into Linus's tree please.
> > 
> > It already is: 71c2742f5e6348d76ee62085cf0a13e5eff0f00e.

Thanks, I'll go add that one as well.

> thanks. This patch (which was not a build fix but an infrastructure fix 
> that the kexec fix in arch/x86 depended on) is well-tested as well, it 
> was queued in -tip on June 10th:
> 
> | commit 91d48fc80f22817332170082e10de60a75851640
> | Author: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> | Date:   Sun Jun 8 15:46:29 2008 +0200
> | CommitDate: Tue Jun 10 14:41:56 2008 +0200
> |
> |    bootmem: add return value to reserve_bootmem_node()
> |
> |    This patch changes the function reserve_bootmem_node() from void to
> |    int, returning -ENOMEM if the allocation fails.
> |
> |    Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> |    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> so it is a -stable candidate just as much as the kexec fix. (These are 
> all fixes for long-standing problems so i guess it can go all the way 
> back to all stable kernels that are being maintained.)

Hm, but it's not in Linus's tree yet, so I can't take it for stable at
this time :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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