Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754052AbYG2XWO (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:22:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752002AbYG2XV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:21:59 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.141]:36826 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbYG2XV6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:21:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:21:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Eli Collins X-X-Sender: ecollins@ecollins-dev1.eng.vmware.com To: Jeff Chua Cc: petr@vmware.com, "H. Peter Anvin" , lkml , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: please revert commit 53f1b1433da7eac2607a4a0898a221a4485fd732 (rtc: push the BKL down into the driver ioctl method) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4889F78B.9090202@zytor.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 29 On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Jeff Chua wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Jeff Chua wrote: > >> > >> This commit is breaking vmware-6.0.4. Upon booting linux (guest) on > >> vmware, the whole vmware environment crashed. > > > > Quality hypervisor we have there... > > > > -hpa > > > > Well then, lets hope Vmware will do something to fix this and remove > the init_mm stuff. The module fixes for 2.6.26+ kernels are in upcoming releases and should get backported to older ones. Thanks, Eli -- 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/