linux-kernel - Re: linux-next 20191204: crash in mm/pagewalk.c

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Date:   Thu, 5 Dec 2019 13:20:10 +0000
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next 20191204: crash in mm/pagewalk.c

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:15:49PM +0000, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:30:26 +0000, Steven Price said:
> > On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 12:23:02PM +0000, Valdis Kl??tnieks wrote:
> > > linux-next 20191204 dies a horrid death on my laptop while booting:
> >
> > This is due to an unfortunate conflict between my series reworking of
> > the page walk infrastructure to reuse it for kernel walks and a commit
> > by Thomas Hellstrom to allow safe modification of entries in the
> > callback. See [1] for more detail.
> >
> > I believe Andrew has dropped my series for now while I rework it to fix
> > this conflict.
> 
> Thanks for the prompt response - I'll try again with today's -next if the series
> has dropped out...

The series is still in next-20191205 - but Andrew has sent me emails
saying the patch is dropped. I'm not sure how long it takes for -next to
reflect the update.

Steve