Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: fix {pmd,pud}_{set,clear}_flags() | From | Juergen Gross <> | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:23:02 +0100 |
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On 19/02/18 15:48, Jan Beulich wrote: > Just like pte_{set,clear}_flags() their PMD and PUD counterparts should > not do any address translation. This was outright wrong under Xen > (causing a dead boot with no useful output on "suitable" systems), and > produced needlessly more complicated code (even if just slightly) when > paravirt was enabled. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
While the changes look alright I'm really curious which kind of failure you are seeing, especially considering how long those functions haven't been changed (since more than 6 years).
Juergen
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