linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes

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Message-ID: <57E153B1.3040907@hpe.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:20:17 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <waiman.long@....com>
To:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
CC:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Scott J Norton <scott.norton@....com>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes

On 09/20/2016 10:48 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Folks, please pull the following two fixes that address the boot hang
> issue Waiman reported here,
>
>    https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57DF56D4.50304@hpe.com
>
> The following changes since commit 3be7988674ab33565700a37b210f502563d932e6:
>
>    Linux 4.8-rc7 (2016-09-18 17:27:41 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 1297667083d5442aafe3e337b9413bf02b114edb:
>
>    x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page tables if in mixed-mode (2016-09-20 14:53:04 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   * Fix a boot hang on large memory machines (multiple terabyte) caused
>     by type conversion errors in the x86 pat code - Matt Fleming
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Matt Fleming (2):
>        x86/mm/pat: Prevent hang during boot when mapping pages
>        x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page tables if in mixed-mode
>
>   arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c         | 21 +++++++++++----------
>   arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c |  2 +-
>   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Are you also going to send these fixes to the 4.6 and 4.7 stable trees 
as well?

Cheers,
Longman