Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:11:28 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       stable@kernel.org, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       stable-review@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [166/197] md/raid5: allow for more than 2^31
	chunks.
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:58:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:10:17 -0700
> > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > 2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > us know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> > > 
> > > commit 35f2a591192d0a5d9f7fc696869c76f0b8e49c3d upstream.
> > > 
> > > With many large drives and small chunk sizes it is possible
> > > to create a RAID5 with more than 2^31 chunks.  Make sure this
> > > works.
> > 
> > Causes build failure on i686:
> > ERROR: "__umoddi3" [drivers/md/raid456.ko] undefined!
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/22/50
> 
> Yeah, that one is definitely not stable material as-is.

Neil did post a patch to fix it, hopefully it gets into your tree soon.

thanks,

greg k-h
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