On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:22:23AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:

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For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would
cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees? �Is there an
in-kernel module that is affected by this limitation?

There are no in-kernel modules which are affected, the "real world"
scenario is debug modules generated by Ksplice.

So why is this needed for the stable kernels? �This really looks like a
feature not a bugfix to me, how about you?

I guess it depends on whether you consider the inability to load
modules bigger than 64mb as a bug or not.

As there is no in-kernel user with this problem, no, I don't think it's
a bug that meets the rules documented in
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, do you?

So I'll drop it, sorry.

greg k-h