Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:11:32 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH urgent] x86: Save cr4 to mmu_cr4_features at boot time |
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* Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Just to clarify the situation the patch "x86-64: finish cleanup_highmaps()'s > job wrt. _brk_end" was backported to the stable trees [...]
There's no commit with such a title upstream - there's not even one that is close. Could you cite the sha1 you refer to?
> [...] (including Jeremy's 2.6.32 xen tree because he pulled from 2.6.32.y) > breaking boot on xen.
Basing upstream-relevant trees on stable backported sha1's is a very, very bad idea.
> Yinghai's patch plus another patch of mine fix that breakage and that is why > I ask for it to be backported.
So it fixes a commit that is nowhere to be found upstream?
> I didn't mean for the backport to be done right now, I just wanted to > notify the stable maintainers that the particular commit should be > backported at some point. > > I didn't mean to overstep your authority in any way.
It's not about overstepping authority - it's about not breaking the native kernel on millions of boxes.
Thanks,
Ingo
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