linux-kernel - Re: 3.18.17 Xen regression

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Message-ID: <55A90C99.10508@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:09:29 -0400
From:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>, sasha.levin@...cle.com
CC:	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.18.17 Xen regression

On 07/17/2015 09:59 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 15:54 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> Commit 63753fac67e1 ("x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4") in
>> 3.18.y branch introduced a regression on PVH Xen guests.
>>
>> Please apply 5054daa285be ("x86/xen: Initialize cr4 shadow for 64-bit
>> PV(H) guests") from mainline to fix this. 3.18.y appears to be the only
>> affected branch.
> Any news on this? Our automated tests of 3.18 are continuing to fail.

+Sasha who I believe is 3.18.y maintainer. I probably should have coped 
him on the original message.

-boris
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