Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

[Satyam Sharma]

On 6/7/07, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:27:46PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > [...]
> > I'm not sure it's appropriate for -rc5 since it mucks around with some
> > early boot ordering, but I'll leave that to Andi, since it does address
> > some real bugs people have been seeing.
>
> I don't think the patch is suitable for merging at this time. Perhaps
> if it survives some time in -mm* / 2.6.23* it could be backported
> in a later 2.6.22 stable release. But right now it definitely
> needs more testing and addressing of my review comments.

BTW an unrelated/happy side-effect of the patch is that it removes
the zero-size-guilty kmalloc()'s from the mtrr code. -mm does have
some fixes that prevent those zero-size allocations, which could
likely be retired if this gets merged in? ...

[ On another unrelated note, could someone tell me who maintains
i386? I've looked around, but surprisingly can't seem to find
anybody listed anywhere. ]

Satyam
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