linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm/pat: Fix BUG_ON in mmap

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 07:11:21 -0600
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	bp@...e.de, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	ying.huang@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm/pat: Fix BUG_ON in mmap_mem on QEMU/i386

On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 11:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com> wrote:
 :
> > 
> > However, this code block, originally written for Pentiums and
> > earlier, is no longer adequate since a 32-bit Xen guest has
> > MTRRs disabled and supports ZONE_HIGHMEM.  In this setup,
> > this code sets UC attribute for accessing RAM in high memory
> > range.
> > 
> > Delete this code block as it has been unused for a long time.
> > 
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@...ux.intel.com>
> > Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/1/608
> > Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> > Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
>
> So you missed the Reviewed-by tag from Boris ...
>
> I've added it, but please try to propagate tags!

Thanks Ingo!

I decided to drop the Reviewed-by tag for v1 since v2 has a different
approach.

-Toshi