From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB85ECDFB3 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0D9208AD for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:20:22 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 6D0D9208AD Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731103AbeGQLw2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:52:28 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59242 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730180AbeGQLw2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:52:28 -0400 Received: from localhost (LFbn-1-12247-202.w90-92.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.92.61.202]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A67B0C34; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:20:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:20:17 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Nathan Chancellor Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, lwn@lwn.net, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Linux 4.17.7 Message-ID: <20180717112017.GA17910@kroah.com> References: <20180717105929.GA18343@kroah.com> <20180717111126.GA24208@flashbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180717111126.GA24208@flashbox> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 04:11:26AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:59:29PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > NOTE, this kernel release is broken for i386 systems. If you are > > running such a machine, do NOT update to this release, you will not be > > able to boot properly. > > > > I did this release anyway with this known problem as there is a fix in > > here for x86-64 systems that was nasty to track down and was affecting > > people. Given that the huge majority of systems are NOT i386, I felt > > this was a safe release to do at this point in time. > > > > Once the proper fix for i386 systems has been accepted into Linus's tree > > (it has been posted already), I will pick it up and do a new 4.17.y > > release so that users of those systems can update. > > > > Just a heads up, it was picked up by Linux yesterday but it wasn't > tagged for stable: d1b47a7c9efc ("mm: don't do zero_resv_unavail if > memmap is not allocated"). Ah, I missed that! Now queued up, let's run this on my build system and then push it out for the world to test in a few hours. thanks, greg k-h