linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/15] arm64: Add page size to the kernel image header

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Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:22:20 +0100
From:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] arm64: Add page size to the kernel image header

On 5 October 2015 at 14:02, Suzuki K. Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com> wrote:
> On 02/10/15 16:49, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:41:18PM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
>>>
>>> This patch adds the page size to the arm64 kernel image header
>>> so that one can infer the PAGESIZE used by the kernel. This will
>>> be helpful to diagnose failures to boot the kernel with page size
>>> not supported by the CPU.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
>>
>>
>> This patch needs you signed-off-by as well since you are posting it. And
>> IIRC I acked it as well, I'll check.
>>
>
> Yes, you did mention that you were OK with the patch. But I thought there
> was
> no  'Acked-by' tag added. Hence didn't pick that up.
>

In my version of this patch (which I sent separately before noticing
that Suzuki had already folded it into his series), I took the comment
from Catalin to the email in which I suggested this change as an
implicit Acked-by.

-- 
Ard.
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