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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:46:53 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at
 runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 04:04:44PM +0000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> hi Kirill,
> 
> As Mike reported it below, your 5-level paging related upstream commit 
> 83e3c48729d9 and all its followup fixes:
> 
>  83e3c48729d9: mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
>  629a359bdb0e: mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
>  d09cfbbfa0f7: mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation for mem_section
> 
> ... still breaks kexec - and that now regresses -stable as well.
> 
> Given that 5-level paging now syntactically depends on having this commit, if we 
> fully revert this then we'll have to disable 5-level paging as well.

Urghh.. Sorry about this.

I'm on vacation right now. Give me a day to sort this out.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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