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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: mm/percpu.c: use smarter memory allocation for struct
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Hello,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 03:31:52PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> So IMHO I don't think reverting the commit is the right thing to do. 
> That commit is clearly not at fault here.

It's not about the blame.  We just want to avoid breaking boot in a
way which is difficult to debug.  Once cris is fixed, we can re-apply
the patch.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun