On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 04:39:19PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/04/2014 04:37 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 04:21:52PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> On 08/04/2014 10:38 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 02:59:02PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >>>> Still not ready :( > >>> > >>> > >>> This should now be resolved with commit > >>> 7209a75d2009dbf7745e2fd354abf25c3deb3ca3 (x86_64/entry/xen: Do not > >>> invoke espfix64 on Xen), right? > >>> > >> > >> Yes... although it reintroduces the original problem on Xen PV. It > >> simply isn't fixable in the kernel; it has to be fixed in the Xen > >> hypervisor. > > > > Ok, so what do I do here? 7209a75d2009dbf7745e2fd354abf25c3deb3ca3 > > doesn't apply to 3.15 and older due to the previous set of changes (this > > thread) is not there. Am I supposed to wait some random amount of time > > and hope some other project gets around to updating their code? > > > > Any reason why I can't apply this series now, and then if the Xen people > > care about this, they will fix their server up when they get the chance > > to? > > > > No, we should do exactly that (and we -- meaning myself and/or Andy) > will have to massage it to fit. Ok, I'll queue these patches up again and let's see what happens :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html