linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv1] x86: don't schedule when handling #NM exception

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Message-ID: <7bb8991e-d565-4ee2-b4df-a4cee77d1a46@email.android.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:29:27 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Sarah Newman <srn@...mr.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv1] x86: don't schedule when handling #NM exception

Sounds good.

On March 19, 2014 5:00:11 PM PDT, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 09:23:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 03/16/2014 09:12 PM, Sarah Newman wrote:
>> > 
>> > Unconditional eager allocation works. Can xen users count on this
>being included and applied to the
>> > stable kernels?
>> > 
>> 
>> I don't know.  If we state that it is a bug fix for Xen it might be
>> possible, but it would be up to Greg (Cc:'d) and the rest of the
>stable
>> team.
>
>If someone sends the git id of the commit in Linus's tree to the
>stable@...r.kernel.org address, we will be glad to review it at that
>point in time.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h

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