Re: [stable] [patch 4/5] x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit

[Ingo Molnar]

* Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > thanks. This patch (which was not a build fix but an infrastructure 
> > fix that the kexec fix in arch/x86 depended on) is well-tested as 
> > well, it was queued in -tip on June 10th:
> > 
> > | commit 91d48fc80f22817332170082e10de60a75851640
> > | Author: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
> > | Date:   Sun Jun 8 15:46:29 2008 +0200
> > | CommitDate: Tue Jun 10 14:41:56 2008 +0200
> > |
> > |    bootmem: add return value to reserve_bootmem_node()
> > |
> > |    This patch changes the function reserve_bootmem_node() from void to
> > |    int, returning -ENOMEM if the allocation fails.
> > |
> > |    Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
> > |    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > so it is a -stable candidate just as much as the kexec fix. (These 
> > are all fixes for long-standing problems so i guess it can go all 
> > the way back to all stable kernels that are being maintained.)
> 
> Hm, but it's not in Linus's tree yet, so I can't take it for stable at 
> this time :(

it's all fine already: it's the very same patch you just added, but 
different sha1. I just pointed out the lineage and the testing status of 
the patch.

	Ingo
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