Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:35:13 +0200 | From | Christoph Schulz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: don't exclude low BIOS area when allocating address space for non-PCI cards |
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Hello!
Bjorn Helgaas schrieb am Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:00:21 -0600:
> I applied this to pci/misc for v3.17, thanks.
Thank you very much. What do you think about queuing it up to -stable? Commit 30919b0bf356 is in the tree since 2.6.37-rc7. We have used the proposed patch for over a year (since 3.2.42 / 3.7.10 / 3.8.5, to be exact) without any regressions. I *think* it meets the criteria for -stable, but I don't have much experience of Linux kernel development processes, so it's your decision, of course.
> This effectively reverts 30919b0bf356 ("x86: avoid low BIOS area when > allocating address space"). I don't see a reference there to a bug > fixed by 30919b0bf356, so hopefully reverting it won't reintroduce a > bug.
Well, for PCI, the current behaviour does not change effectively, and for ISA, the proposed patch fixes a bug. What memory allocations beyond ISA and PCI could be adversely affected?
Best regards,
Christoph Schulz
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