Re: Linux 5.11-rc5

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 05 2021 - 01:56:04 EST


On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:32:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Taking it from upstream makes it easier to track over time what happend.
I've queued it up now, thanks!

greg k-h