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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH urgent] x86: Save cr4 to mmu_cr4_features at boot time
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On Monday, April 04, 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Just to clarify the situation the patch "x86-64: finish cleanup_highmaps()'s 
> > > > job wrt. _brk_end" was backported to the stable trees [...]
> > > 
> > > There's no commit with such a title upstream - there's not even one that is 
> > > close. Could you cite the sha1 you refer to?
> > 
> > The commit id upstream is 498343967613183611ac37dccb2846496d954c06
> 
> That commit is from the v2.6.30 era:
> 
>  |
>  | commit 498343967613183611ac37dccb2846496d954c06
>  | Author:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>  | AuthorDate: Wed May 6 13:06:47 2009 +0100
>  | Commit:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
>  | CommitDate: Thu May 7 21:51:34 2009 -0700
>  |
>  |    x86-64: finish cleanup_highmaps()'s job wrt. _brk_end
>  |
> 
> ... i.e. the bug is almost 2 years and 8 -stable cycles old!
> 
> Peter very consciously did not mark the fix for this commit as -stable 
> material. It was ineligible for -stable for multiple reasons: it by no means 
> fixed a 2.6.39 regression and the fix was literally just a few days old.

Has this issue been resolved in the mainline, BTW?

Rafael