On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:57:13AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 08/04/2014 07:51 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >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 :) > > Greg, > > What about 8762e5092828c4dc0f49da5a47a644c670df77f3 (x86/espfix/xen: Fix > allocation of pages for paravirt page tables)? > > You sent a note a couple of weeks ago that it wouldn't apply to 3.15 and I > wonder whether this was because some of the other espfix patches haven't > made it to your queue. Now that everything seems to be there, can this > commit be applied? Thanks for remembering this, it now applies properly and I've queued it up. 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