Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:20:12 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | 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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