From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752763AbaIYKjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:39:42 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:32819 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751414AbaIYKjk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:39:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:39:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: David Rientjes cc: James Custer , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow 1GB pages to be SPECIAL similar to 2MB In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1411579143-10963-1-git-send-email-jcuster@sgi.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, James Custer wrote: > > > > > Signed-off-by: James Custer > > With no changelog to describe the motivation for this change or to specify > why it's required, I doubt you're going to get your patches merged by the > x86 maintainers. Indeed. Was about to rant about this ... tglx