Re: Not really merged? Re: [merged]x86-paravirt-pte-updates-in-kunmap_atomic-need-to-be-synchronous-regardless-of-lazy_mmu-mode.patchremoved from -mm tree

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Nov 30 2011 - 14:40:25 EST


On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:02:49 +0100 Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, as of today, this seems to be back on the master branch of linux-next (I
> guess from Andrew putting it back, but I am never sure with linux-next). But I
> am not sure how/when this would go into Linus tree. I assume without any
> specific action maybe merge window for 3.3...
> We got some positive feedback on it from users running into the problem. So it
> seems like a valuable change. From the discusions so far I take that technically
> the change did not trigger resistance. For that reason I wanted to ask whether
> there is a chance that this looks important enough to be pushed before the next
> merge window...

I sent this patch to the x86 maintainers two weeks ago. It was
ignored, as were the other 11 patches I sent. Later I will resend them
all. If they are again ignored I will later send them yet again, and
so on.


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