Re: [PATCH 4.4 34/74] arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-03-12T06:06:00Z

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 01:55:44PM +0800, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
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> > On 12 mrt. 2016, at 13:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 08:51:26AM +0700, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>> On 8 March 2016 at 20:45, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>>> On 8 March 2016 at 20:44, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:40:14PM +0700, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>>>>> On 8 March 2016 at 07:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>>>>> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please hold off on this one. We are seeing some breakage on 64k pages systems
> >>>>
> >>>> If this problem is also in Linus's tree, I'd like to keep it in to keep
> >>>> things "bug compatible". Please let me know what fix that I should
> >>>> apply to resolve this.
> >>>
> >>> I am about to send out the patch that should fix this, so I will put you on cc.
> >>
> >> Not sure what happened here, but this patch is in 4.4-stable now, but
> >> the fix is not.
> >
> > Because the fix came out _after_ I released that kernel? I can't go
> > back in time...
> >
>
> I kind of got the whole chronology thing. I am just surprised you
> pulled only that patch (and not the fix) anyway, since you knew it
> would break things, and that a fix was on the way.

That way I knew you all would work quickly to get the fix in :)

We do this all the time, nothing new here, being "bug compatible" is
good...

thanks,

greg k-h