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

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:49:27 -0600
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
To:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.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 Tue, 2016-03-29 at 10:46 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> 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)

Cool! Thanks Boris!
-Toshi