Re: [GIT PULL] arm64: fixes for -rc6

From: Jon Masters
Date: Tue Apr 11 2017 - 15:13:08 EST


On 04/07/2017 12:02 PM, Will Deacon wrote:

> Please pull these two arm64 fixes for -rc6. We've got a regression fix for
> the signal raised when userspace makes an unsupported unaligned access and a
> revert of the contiguous (hugepte) support for hugetlb, which has once again
> been found to be broken. One day, maybe, we'll get it right.

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> - Revert broken support for the contiguous bit in hugetlb (again...)

Quick aside: is this being worked on for 4.12? If not, should we ping
Linaro and look to get some focus on this? It's right to disable this,
but also painful to those wanting to work on various NFV use cases.

Jon.

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