linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86-64: fix combining of regions in init_memory

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Message-ID: <20080915125150.GC304@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:51:50 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: fix combining of regions in
	init_memory_mapping()


* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:

> > The issue is apparently pretty benign to native code, but surfaces 
> > as a boot time crash in our forward ported Xen tree (where the page 
> > table setup overall works differently than in native). Since the 
> > underlying issue was present in native (and since I assume if there 
> > is an attempt to merge subsequent regions, then it should work 
> > right), I nevertheless submitted the patch for native inclusion.
> 
> yes. your patch fixed the skip...
> 
> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>

applied to tip/x86/core, thanks!

	Ingo
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