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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:48:08 -0500
From:	Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, Tom Rini <trini@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: 1bbbbe7 (x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions...) PANIC on
 boot

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:35:18PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> We never know that bios guys will not let bios produce crazy e820 map.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, well, that just *will* happen... that's a given.
> >
> > We can trim those ranges, though.  Who cares if we lose some RAM.
> >
> 
> please check attached two patches that handle partial pages for 3.7.
> 
> and you still need patch in
>    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/24/469
> 
> to address early page table size calculation problem for Tom Rini

Acked-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>

hpa, we need this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/24/469 and the above
2 from Yinghai to handle corner case E820 layouts.

I got an email from Greg KH that 1bbbbe779aabe1f0768c2bf8f8c0a5583679b54a is
queued for stable, so these need to go to stable as well.

Thanks,

-Jacob

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yinghai




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