linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PSE pagetable construction

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Message-ID: <m1bqh8friu.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:27:37 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PSE pagetable construction

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> writes:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> My preference would be for whoever had:
>>> paravirt_ops-hooks-to-set-up-initial-pagetable.patch
>>>     
>>
>> That would be very messy because there are many followup dependencies.
>>
>> But once we have a good fix aggreed by everybody I can merge it into the 
>> initial patch then.
>
> I'm working on an incremental fix.

Except for Xen my patch should work incrementally.

Just so long as we don't push this change upstream until we fix
this, we should be ok.

Eric
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