On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 12/17/2012 02:47 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Peter, can you check that branch again? >>>> >>>> I moved the early_trap_init after init_mem_mapping. >>>> so for 64bit native, init_mem_mapping will setup page table for ram from >>>> blank. >>>> >>> >>> Looks better, at first glance at least. There are a couple of unnecessary >>> changes (the counter in head_64.S cannot exceed 32 bits once computed, so >>> the change from %rcx to %ecx change is pointless.) >> >> ok, return to use %ecx >> >>> >>> There is another bug in my patch: it either needs to mask off the NX bit if >>> we are running on non-NX-enabled hardware, or it needs to not set the NX bit >>> (which is mostly okay that early on, I suspect.) >> >> i test that in kvm guest, and westmere, current version seem ok. >> >> will repost the patchset to list to get more review. >> > > not sure if i could move that early_trap_init down. > > jason, > > We need to move down early_trap_init after init_memory_mapping to use > early #PF handler to set page table. > > So can we do that? for kgdb it is that ok to move it down? adding to Jan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html