linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

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Message-Id: <20180117162944.749a13ce2ff20a736812bd66@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:29:44 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:24:08 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:

> 
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >  - A kdump fix
> > >
> > >   out-of-topic modifications in x86-urgent-for-linus:
> > >   -----------------------------------------------------
> > >   include/linux/crash_core.h         # 9f15b9120f56: kdump: Write the correct add
> > >   kernel/crash_core.c                # 9f15b9120f56: kdump: Write the correct add
> > 
> > This came through Andrew too. It all merged fine since there were no
> > other modifications, but it's a bit odd how this was in the x86 tree,
> > and even if that part makes sense it's a sign of lack of communication
> > at some point.
> > 
> > Oh well. Not a big deal. I just thought I'd mention it.
> 
> Hm, I don't think Andrew Cc:-ed me when he sent it to you, so I didn't notice the 
> duplication. The bug was introduced via the 5-level paging changes in the x86 
> tree, so I assumed the fix would go via the x86 tree as well.
> 
> Andrew was Cc:-ed to the -tip commit.

I cc'ed the whole world on that one:

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>

but yeah, I make a lot of noise ;)

Ordinarily I'll auto-drop such things if they turn up in linux-next but
it seems this one got fast-tracked in -tip so that mechanism didn't
work (this is rare).