"Yinghai Lu" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Dec 1, 2007 5:34 PM, Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> [email protected] writes:
>>
>> > hello,
>> >
>> > i've just noticed that the chunk in i386/kernel/head.S ended up in a
>> > weird place, namely, it's not going to be executed as it's just after
>> > a 'jmp 3f' and before startup_32_smp, probably not what you intended.
>> > on a sidenote, the whole thing can be done in a single insn, like:
>> >
>> > movl $(swapper_pg_pmd - __PAGE_OFFSET + 0x067), (swapper_pg_dir -
>> > __PAGE_OFFSET+ 4092)
>> >
>> > PS: your email address [email protected] in the commit seems to
>> > be wrong as well.
>>
>> Yes. YH refresh one of my old patches and apparently got my email
>> address wrong.
>>
>> Thanks for the reminder I thought we had fixed this problem a while ago.
>
> i sent fix to andrew and andi. but it seems they missed it.
Well hopefully the new arch/x86 maintainers can pick up a simple bug fix.
Hopefully this code has not bit-rotted yet.
> BTW: how about your head32.c patch series.
I think it is a wonderful idea ;)
Right now I'm buried in the namespace work.
I am seeing my todo list shrink visibly on that day by day, but it is
still a mighty list.
Hopefully that list will won't include any patches that just need refreshing
and merging by the time 2.6.25 rolls around...
Eric
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