From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PARISC] Handle wrapping in expand_upwards()
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:01:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070625010111.GA27973@fattire.cabal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070623095548.a7117833.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:55:48AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> You did't really provide enough information for us to be able to decide
> whether this change is needed in 2.6.22, let alone 2.6.21.
>
> I will magically infer from your To: line that you consider it 2.6.22
> material, but if so I think that we'll need suitable reviewing, testing and
> acking from Tony, please. If he's offline (ols, perhaps?) then we might
> have a problem. Perhaps find a suitable ia64-enabled alternate?
>
Yes. It's not an issue on ia64 afaict since it isn't used for the
stack, just the register stack engine backing store.
On parisc, the symptom is basically that dereferencing 0xffffffff would
oops the kernel.
>
> As for 2.6.21: I'll assume it's needed there as well. Please advise if
> otherwise.
>
I'm not horribly worried about parisc in 2.6-stable...
Cheers,
Kyle M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-25 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-21 9:11 [PARISC] Handle wrapping in expand_upwards() Kyle McMartin
2007-06-23 16:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-25 1:01 ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
2007-06-25 21:36 ` Luck, Tony
2007-06-29 14:48 ` Kyle McMartin
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