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Date:	Fri, 27 Nov 2015 21:05:52 +0000
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/efi: PFN_ALIGN() _text and _end when calculating
 number of pages

On Thu, 26 Nov, at 12:13:23PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> As far as backporting goes, it would generally be _safer_ to backport the linker 
> script fix, in case there are other unrealized alignment bugs in the kernel. 
> Especially if upstream does the same.

OK, I'll respin this series and replace this patch with the linker
script fix.
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