Re: Linux 5.11-rc5

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 10:19 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:49:39PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Mike: should we perhaps revert the first patch too (commit
> > bde9cfa3afe4: "x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0")?
>
> Unfortunately, I was too optimistic and didn't take into account that this
> commit changes the way /dev/mem sees the first page of memory.
>
> There were reports of slackware users about issues with lilo after upgrade
> from 5.10.11 to 5.10.12

Ok, applied to mainline.

Greg & stable people - this is now commit 5c279c4cf206 ("Revert
"x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0"") in my tree.
Although maybe you just want to revert the commit in stable, rather
than take it from upstream? Same difference.

                 Linus