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Subject: Re: Infinite loop on boot in free_early_partial due to start==end
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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 19:04 +0000, Yinghai Lu wrote: 
> On 03/19/2010 11:28 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >> Subject: x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas
> >>
> >> This avoids an infinite loop in free_early_partial().
> > 
> > The patch fixed PV guests booting on Xen. I've added my
> > Tested-by .. Please merge it in the release.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> >>
> >> Add a warning to free_early_partial to catch future problems.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > 
> > Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> 
> please check update version...
> 
> please check if this patch help...
> 
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/83832/

Sorry Konrad, looks like I directed you to an older version of the patch
by mistake.

Ian.