linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] Enhance PAT init to fix Xorg crashes

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Message-ID: <56FA9563.60401@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:46:59 -0400
From:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	jgross@...e.com, mcgrof@...e.com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
	hpa@...or.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	bp@...e.de, elliott@....com, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] Enhance PAT init to fix Xorg crashes

On 03/29/2016 10:19 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 12:34 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>>> I'd appreciate if someone can test this patch-set on Xen to verify that
>>> there is no change in "x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7] .." message in
>>> dmesg.
>> So I don't have a Xen setup, but hopefully such testing will happen once
>> these changes show up in linux-next, tomorrow or so.
> I will address if any issue is found in testing.

I ran a subset of out nightly test. Nobody died.

So this all looks good. (It actually may have also fixed another bug 
that was reported recently by Olaf, copied here)

-boris