From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754855Ab1DDPLs (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:11:48 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:48846 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754269Ab1DDPLr (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:11:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:11:32 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "x86@kernel.org" , "yinghai@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Greg KH , "lkml20101129@newton.leun.net" , stable kernel team Subject: Re: [PATCH urgent] x86: Save cr4 to mmu_cr4_features at boot time Message-ID: <20110404151132.GC11475@elte.hu> References: <20110401062338.GA6434@elte.hu> <20110401190812.GA16830@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes 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 * Stefano Stabellini 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