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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	oe-kbuild-all@lists.linux.dev,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [akpm-mm:mm-unstable 62/89] include/linux/kexec.h:41:2: error: #error KEXEC_SOURCE_MEMORY_LIMIT not defined
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:17:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230703131726.d505551a7ea964341ece91ba@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5682972-bc67-4b65-33e3-d95182b5e0d0@oracle.com>

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:34:21 -0500 Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 7/3/23 11:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 10:31:34 -0500 Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Here are three possible courses of action:
> >>    - do nothing; preserve existing behavior as intended by the series (even though problems like this
> >> can occur)
> >>    - fix it with CRASH_DUMP selecting KEXEC to eliminate the problem
> > 
> > This one, please.
> > 
> > Or make CRASH_DUMP depend on KEXEC.
> > 
> >>    - do not fix it but document the reason why this problem occurs in the commit message
> 
> ok, great!
> 
> I also have an unrelated fix for riscv, and this correction (for both arm and mips). Is the correct 
> action to post a new v4 version? Or is there a different method?

If the changes are small then I feel that individual fix patches are
kinder to people who have already reviewed the previous.

But a new version is OK if that's more reliable.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-03 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-03  6:31 kernel test robot
2023-07-03 15:31 ` Eric DeVolder
2023-07-03 16:31   ` Andrew Morton
2023-07-03 18:34     ` Eric DeVolder
2023-07-03 20:17       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-07-05 14:21         ` Eric DeVolder
2023-07-05 21:15           ` Eric DeVolder

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