Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:36:54 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM, x86, PAT: Change implementation of is_linear_pfn_mapping |
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* Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 13:30 -0700, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Thursday 12 March 2009, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > > > OK, Looking more at the code, I now understand how the patch from > > > yday resulted in the oops you saw. Here goes my nth attempt at solving > > > this problem. Can you please test this patch. > > > > System has been running stable for almost an hour now with pat enabled, so > > it looks like the problem is solved. > > > > FYI, with early .29 RCs I had the following when running VirtualBox: > > kernel: WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:620 reserve_pfn_range+0x5b/0x26d() > > > > After be03d9e80220 (which probably fixed that) VirtualBox could no longer > > be loaded at all with pat enabled, but with this patch added VirtualBox > > runs perfectly again. > > That's great news :-). > > Ingo: considering the history of this patch, can you let this > cook in your tree for a week or so and then push towards > upstream-git (and .29 stable if .29 is out by then).
Could you please update the commit log with the Reported-by and Tested-by tags from Frans, and resend it anew into this thread with a changed subject line?
Ingo
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