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Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:41:28 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	hpa@...or.com, jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	stable@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Not really merged? Re: [merged]
 x86-paravirt-pte-updates-in-kunmap_atomic-need-to-be-synchronous-regardless-of-lazy_mmu-mode.patch
 removed from -mm tree

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:02:49 +0100 Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com> wrote:

> So, as of today, this seems to be back on the master branch of linux-next (I
> guess from Andrew putting it back, but I am never sure with linux-next). But I
> am not sure how/when this would go into Linus tree. I assume without any
> specific action maybe merge window for 3.3...
> We got some positive feedback on it from users running into the problem. So it
> seems like a valuable change. From the discusions so far I take that technically
> the change did not trigger resistance. For that reason I wanted to ask whether
> there is a chance that this looks important enough to be pushed before the next
> merge window...

I sent this patch to the x86 maintainers two weeks ago.  It was
ignored, as were the other 11 patches I sent.  Later I will resend them
all.  If they are again ignored I will later send them yet again, and
so on.


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