Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: Drop 4MB restriction on minimal NUMA node memory size

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Mind resubmitting that to the MM folks, with the NULL dereference 
> > > crash mentioned prominently? Feel free to Cc: me.
> > 
> > OK, I will resend it if no one else objects. :)
> 
> Thanks, much appreciated - and I see Andrew already applied your two 
> fixes to -mm.
> 
> With that background I was able to apply the x86 fix as well - which can 
> be backported without the MM changes. The current commit in tip:x86/mm 
> is:
> 
>   a1e2b8b36820 ("x86/mm: Drop the 4 MB restriction on minimal NUMA node memory size")
> 
> Which should hit v6.7 in about ~1.5 weeks, unless there's unexpected 
> problems.

Note that I haven't added a Cc: stable tag, a 17 years old bug is not 
really a regression - but I have no objections against this fix getting 
into -stable once it gains a bit more testing and hits upstream.

Thanks,

	Ingo