linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/xen changes for v2.6.31

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:40:50 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/xen changes for v2.6.31

On 06/10/09 15:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:54:23 +0200
> Ingo Molnar<mingo@...e.hu>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Linus,
>>
>> Please pull the latest x86-xen-for-linus git tree from:
>>
>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-xen-for-linus
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (32):
>>        mm: disable preemption in apply_to_pte_range
>> ...
>>        mm: allow preemption in apply_to_pte_range
>>      
>
> I think these cancel each other out, don't they?
>    

[ Resent for lkml; Fedora 11's Thunderbird quietly sends HTML by default 
(thanks for that) ]

Yes.  The first is the bare-minimum hacky bugfix, followed by the proper 
fix which reverts the hack.  Just a bit of wankery, basically.

     J
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