From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965346AbXCGN17 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:27:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965388AbXCGN17 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:27:59 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:54456 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965346AbXCGN16 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:27:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 05:26:21 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.21-rc3 Message-ID: <20070307132621.GA8084@kroah.com> References: <1173263132.9349.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1173263132.9349.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:25:32AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds (2): > > Revert "[PATCH] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant" > > Linux 2.6.21-rc3 > > Greg, I think we should revert that patch in 2.6.20.x stable serie too > as get_order is broken there as well, causing random kernel memory > corruption every now and then among others. Now added to the -stable tree, thanks for pointing it out to me. greg k-h