Re: [patch 4/5] x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* 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. 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.)

	Ingo