linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Misc GDT fixes and a cleanup

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Message-ID: <9ca80f5f-fda2-f79c-aa1f-6675ba9de005@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:18:34 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Misc GDT fixes and a cleanup

On 03/22/2017 05:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> This applies to tip:x86/mm.  For ease of testing, the series is here, too:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/tag/?h=review_20170322_gdt_and_wp
>
> This fixes a few issues, most of which appear to be rather old.  For
> whatever reason, Thomas' GDT series unearthed them.  (And one is a
> genuine bug in Thomas' code but, in his defense, he might have
> cut-and-pasted it verbatim from the identical bug in the EFI code.)
>
> The last three patches are cleanups I did while tracking these down.
>
> Boris, any chance you could test this series on Xen?  The 64-bit
> case works for me, but I'm having issues testing on 32-bit right
> now.

Yes, this is all good. Tests passed.

-boris