linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7

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Date:	Mon, 9 May 2011 23:53:56 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc7

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 07:49:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So things have been pretty quiet, and unless something major comes up
> I believe that this will be the last -rc.

Oh no! I was hoping for an extra week!

The patch that I asked to be pulled: (a38647837a411f7df79623128421eef2118b5884)
"xen/mmu: Add workaround "x86-64, mm: Put early page table high"

does not compleltly workaround the regression that the patch from Yinghai titled 
'x86-64, mm: Put early page table high" introduced wherein Linux can't boot under Xen.

The failure still encountered: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/5/180, the
previous git pull request with an outline of the problem https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/3/99
and huge amount of details in http://marc.info/?i=1302607192-21355-2-git-send-email-stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com

I was hoping that the rc6 could stretch out so that by the time hpa came back from
his travels he would have had a chance to look at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/5/226
(or git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/bug-fixes-for-rc6)
which has a more precise patch and fixes the regression.

Linus, what is the right way to go about this?
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