Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: account for PGDIR_SIZE alignment

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* Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:14:54AM -0600, jerry.hoemann@xxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Greg, Yinghai, ...
> > 
> > Have you guys had a chance to consider this patch?
> > 
> > I understand that in general we want to only apply commits
> > from upstream, but with the changes to init_memory_mapping in
> > the 3.9 kernel the change below isn't applicable.
> > 
> > I have looked into applying the upstream commits from Yinghai
> > from Nov last year,  this gets fairly involved and wasn't sure
> > you'd want the larger change back ported.
> > 
> > If you could let me know your views to one of the above or to
> > a third approach I'd be most appreciative as we would like to
> > have 3.0-stable based distros 3.0-stable pick up the eventual
> > fix as the current code panics during boot on our new system
> > with the right memory configurations.
> 
> Now applied, thanks.

Thanks Greg.

As Jerry indicated it the full series of upstream commits is very involved 
and is far too risky for a -stable backport.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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