linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] x86/xen: updated physical mapping patches, and _PAGE

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Date:	Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:56:23 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>,
	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 8] x86/xen: updated physical mapping patches, and
 _PAGE_GLOBAL cleanup

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> well there are context dependencies so i've put them into x86/xen-64bit.
>
> i picked up these four and merged them into tip/master:
>
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (4):
>       x86_64/setup: unconditionally populate the pgd
>       x86: always set _PAGE_GLOBAL in _PAGE_KERNEL* flags
>       x86_32: remove __PAGE_KERNEL(_EXEC)
>       x86/cpa: use an undefined PTE bit for testing CPA
>
> the others were either already applied or didnt apply.
>   

Yes, that's fine.  The other patches were a more elegant recasting of an 
existing patch into a more finely bisectable series, which I only needed 
to do to debug the _PAGE_GLOBAL issue.  These four are the really 
interesting parts of the series.

> i'm still testing tip/master but i've pushed out these updates to 
> x86/xen-64bit - you should be able to get the tree i'm testing by doing:
>
>    git-checkout tip/master
>    git-merge tip/x86/xen-64bit
>   

Thanks,
    J
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