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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bp@suse.de, efault@gmx.de,
	gorcunov@openvz.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
	luto@amacapital.net, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "Revert "mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y"" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:09:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180108100905.GB18672@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180108100416.GA18672@kroah.com>

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:04:16AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:50:49AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 08-01-18 10:28:36, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:10:17AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > > 
> > > >     Revert "mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y"
> > > > 
> > > > to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
> > > >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > > > 
> > > > The filename of the patch is:
> > > >      revert-mm-sparsemem-allocate-mem_section-at-runtime-for-config_sparsemem_extreme-y.patch
> > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
> > > > 
> > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > > 
> > > Nope, broke the build, now dropped.
> > 
> > Have you reverted both 7d7545295e714751fa236c6284167342b066d825
> > 4afaf6ea65acb07e151470580d89e6a2c0268610 (stable commits)?
> 
> No, let me try that, I missed the second one...

No, I missed the first one.  Ugh, it's been a long few months...

Anyway, that didn't work either, I'm just going to leave things alone
for now.  If someone wants to send me a patch series of correct reverts,
I'll be glad to take them.  But really, Linus's tree should just be
fixed, that will be an easier resolution here.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-08 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-08  9:10 Patch "Revert "mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y"" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree gregkh
2018-01-08  9:28 ` Greg KH
2018-01-08  9:50   ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-08 10:04     ` Greg KH
2018-01-08 10:09       ` Greg KH [this message]

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