[for stable] x86, PAT: Remove page granularity tracking forvm_insert_pfn maps

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Apr 18 2009 - 05:08:36 EST



* David John <davidjon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 04/16/2009 11:08 PM, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> >
> > Specifically the patch here will help (not sure whether it cleanly applies over 29.1.
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123923026401648&w=2
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Venki
> >
>
> Thanks Venkatesh, that patch fixes the problem. This should be
> submitted to -stable as I know at least one other person who has
> this regression and the latest Fedora kernels have the problem as
> well.

It's now upstream via:

4b06504: x86, PAT: Remove page granularity tracking for vm_insert_pfn maps

also attached below. It cherry-picks fine on top of v2.6.29.

Ingo

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