linux-kernel - Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

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Message-Id: <1173263132.9349.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:25:32 +0100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Linus Torvalds (2):
>       Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant"
>       Linux 2.6.21-rc3

Greg, I think we should revert that patch in 2.6.20.x stable serie too
as get_order is broken there as well, causing random kernel memory
corruption every now and then among others.

Cheers,
Ben

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