Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Jan 07 2018 - 04:11:20 EST


On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 06:14:22AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 09:45 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> FYI, this broke kdump, or rather the makedumpfile part thereof.
>  Forward looking wreckage is par for the kdump course, but...

Is it also broken in Linus's tree with this patch? Or is there an
add-on patch that I should apply to 4.14 to resolve this issue there?

thanks,

greg k-h