Re: [PATCH 0/7] Misc GDT fixes and a cleanup

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Thu Mar 23 2017 - 08:19:26 EST


On 03/22/2017 05:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> This applies to tip:x86/mm. For ease of testing, the series is here, too:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/tag/?h=review_20170322_gdt_and_wp
>
> This fixes a few issues, most of which appear to be rather old. For
> whatever reason, Thomas' GDT series unearthed them. (And one is a
> genuine bug in Thomas' code but, in his defense, he might have
> cut-and-pasted it verbatim from the identical bug in the EFI code.)
>
> The last three patches are cleanups I did while tracking these down.
>
> Boris, any chance you could test this series on Xen? The 64-bit
> case works for me, but I'm having issues testing on 32-bit right
> now.

Yes, this is all good. Tests passed.

-boris