Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to deallocate failed PUDs

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From	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject	Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to deallocate failed PUDs
Date	Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:20:02 +0200
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:46 PM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
> <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fixing this directly is difficult or impossible because of the awful
> > state of Linux's page table accessors.
> 
> Quite frankly, this part of the message is misleading and wrong.

Fair enough - I amended the commit and pushed out the new version.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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[PATCH] x86/mm/cpa: Unbreak populate_pgd(): stop trying to deallocate failed PUDs Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-07-23 07:00 +0200
  [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to  deallocate failed PUDs tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-07-23 09:50 +0200
    Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to  deallocate failed PUDs Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-07-23 10:40 +0200
      Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to  deallocate failed PUDs Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-07-23 21:20 +0200
  [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to  deallocate failed PUDs tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-07-23 21:20 +0200
    Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/cpa: Fix populate_pgd(): Stop trying to deallocate failed PUDs Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 22:50 +0200

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