On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just to clarify the situation the patch "x86-64: finish > > cleanup_highmaps()'s > > job wrt. _brk_end" was backported to the stable trees [...] > > There's no commit with such a title upstream - there's not even one that is > close. Could you cite the sha1 you refer to?
The commit id upstream is 498343967613183611ac37dccb2846496d954c06 > > [...] (including Jeremy's 2.6.32 xen tree because he pulled from 2.6.32.y) > > breaking boot on xen. > > Basing upstream-relevant trees on stable backported sha1's is a very, very > bad > idea. We are not using Jeremy's 2.6.32 tree for development anymore, we develop on upstream directly. > > Yinghai's patch plus another patch of mine fix that breakage and that is > > why > > I ask for it to be backported. > > So it fixes a commit that is nowhere to be found upstream? It fixes 498343967613183611ac37dccb2846496d954c06, if you are interested in all the details of the conversation with Yinghai and Peter, here are a couple of links to the lkml archives: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/31/232 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/28/410 _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
