[openib-general] Re: [git patch review 2/2] IB: Don't doublefree pages from scatterlist

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [git patch review 2/2] IB: Don't doublefree pages from scatterlist
> 
>     Hugh> It's now looking like this change won't be needed after all:
>     Hugh> Andi has just posted a patch in the "ipr" thread which
>     Hugh> should stop x86_64 from interfering with the scatterlist
>     Hugh> *page,offset,length fields, so what IB and others were doing
>     Hugh> should then work safely (current thinking is that x86_64 is
>     Hugh> the only architecture which coalesced in that way).
> 
> OK, I'll drop this from my tree.
> 
>  - R.

But hopefully, not (yet) the svn tree - svn tree is explicitly targeting
the last stable kernel from kernels.org?

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies