linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Bugfix for VMI paravirt ops

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Message-ID: <46158DE1.4050508@vmware.com>
Date:	Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:01:37 -0700
From:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bugfix for VMI paravirt ops

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 06 April 2007 01:29:56 Zachary Amsden wrote:
>   
>> I noticed this never got applied.  There was some feedback which I did 
>> not include in this patch because I think it is inappropriate to touch 
>> code outside vmi.c at this point for 2.6.21. 
>>     
>
> I think it is. That is why i didn't apply it.
>   

Well at this point, the "proper" fix is dependent on Jeremy's 
kmap_atomic_pte changes, which are definitely too late to pull into 
2.6.21.  Can we just apply this patch please?

Thanks,

Zach
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