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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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