From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761392AbYEFPFS (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 11:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754250AbYEFPFD (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 11:05:03 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37830 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754578AbYEFPFB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 11:05:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 17:04:32 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jeff Chua , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Gabriel C , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1 - pgtable_32.c:178 pmd_bad Message-ID: <20080506150432.GA31075@elte.hu> References: <20080506124946.GA2146@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Hugh Dickins wrote: > > we have an strace/ptrace fix pending in x86.git - but that should > > not affect khelper. > > No, it comes from your pmd_bad_v1/pmd_bad_v2 debug patch, which Linus > objected to, yet has crept into his tree nonetheless. hm, the main objection was about whether to turn PAGE_SIZE from unsigned into signed though - and that we didnt do. regarding the mm/memory.c changes you did - that's something i proposed before but didnt really feel positive about it because it affected every architecture. lets sort it out. > I looked back through the mails and logs on that, and disagree with > most of what was done there. Here's my pending fix below, but I've > not yet tested whether it builds correctly on all relevant configs, > nor whether my pmd_huge does what's intended, nor written the > necessary comments, nor worked out the Cc list - I'm going out for a > short while, all those will follow later, this sent as a heads up to > relieve Jeff from bisecting. > > Not-yet-Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins i've thrown this into my queue to test it some more. I wont complain if it breaks :) Ingo