linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lguest: Accept guest _PAGE

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Message-Id: <200803041237.10195.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:37:09 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, lguest@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lguest: Accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries

On Thursday 07 February 2008 11:51:20 Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:59:23AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > yes, should be safe. Could you send a patch so that others can apply it
> > too?
>
> Ofcourse :) :
>
> Accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries, otherwise lguest will
> always fail with a "bad page table entry" message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com>

Thanks for tracking this Ahmed, and thanks to Ingo for pushing it upstream.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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