Re: Linux 4.17.7

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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").



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