Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:25:00 +0530 | From | "Satyam Sharma" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs |
| |
On 6/7/07, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:27:46PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > [...] > > I'm not sure it's appropriate for -rc5 since it mucks around with some > > early boot ordering, but I'll leave that to Andi, since it does address > > some real bugs people have been seeing. > > I don't think the patch is suitable for merging at this time. Perhaps > if it survives some time in -mm* / 2.6.23* it could be backported > in a later 2.6.22 stable release. But right now it definitely > needs more testing and addressing of my review comments.
BTW an unrelated/happy side-effect of the patch is that it removes the zero-size-guilty kmalloc()'s from the mtrr code. -mm does have some fixes that prevent those zero-size allocations, which could likely be retired if this gets merged in? ...
[ On another unrelated note, could someone tell me who maintains i386? I've looked around, but surprisingly can't seem to find anybody listed anywhere. ]
Satyam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |