From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: skip paravirt patching when appropriate
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:55:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C7DB4C.1020600@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070818222821.GX3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Chris Wright wrote:
> * Chris Wright (chrisw@sous-sol.org) wrote:
>
>> Now that I understand the problem, I do have a very simple (slightly
>> overkill) fix for paravirt patching. This can be cleaned up to avoid
>> the copies when they aren't needed, but that will take a little more
>> auditing of the various patchers. If you still prefer a revert I've
>> got one handy, and we can re-visit this all post .23.
>>
>
> This one avoids the patching when necessary, but needs some validation on
> VMI (and Zach's not avail today). I'll resend when I know it's working
> for all paravirt patchers.
>
Looks like it's already in -git. I tested with your fix and hit a
different bug. Bisecting, will handle.
Zach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-19 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-09 12:41 [PATCH] [0/12] x86 Late merge bug fixes for 2.6.23 Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD Fam10h Andi Kleen
2007-08-10 10:19 ` [patches] " Joachim Deguara
2007-08-12 9:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 10:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-12 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-13 3:06 ` Dave Jones
2007-08-13 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-13 3:38 ` dean gaudet
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [2/12] x86_64: Calgary - Fix mis-handled PCI topology Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [3/12] x86_64: Don't mark __exitcall as __cold Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [4/12] x86_64: Disable CLFLUSH support again Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:54 ` [patches] " Jan Beulich
2007-08-09 13:11 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-08-09 13:12 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 13:29 ` [patches] " Jan Beulich
2007-08-09 16:24 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue Andi Kleen
2007-08-18 0:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-18 0:11 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-18 9:49 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-18 20:32 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-18 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-18 21:31 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-18 22:28 ` [PATCH] x86: skip paravirt patching when appropriate Chris Wright
2007-08-19 3:08 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-19 5:55 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2007-08-18 21:58 ` [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-20 1:50 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-20 2:07 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-20 6:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-21 7:30 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-21 11:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-21 12:26 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [6/12] x86_64: Early segment setup for VT Andi Kleen
2007-10-11 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [7/12] x86_64: really stop MCEs during code patching Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [8/12] x86_64: Use global flag to disable broken local apic timer on AMD CPUs Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 16:46 ` Cal Peake
2007-08-09 16:50 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [9/12] x86_64: Avoid NMI Watchdog and/or long wait in setup_APIC_timer Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [10/12] x86_64: Add warning in Documentation that zero-page is not a stable ABI Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [11/12] x86_64: vdso.lds in arch/x86_64/vdso/.gitignore Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:41 ` [PATCH] [12/12] x86_64: Fix start_kernel warning Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 13:06 ` [PATCH] [0/12] x86 Late merge bug fixes for 2.6.23 Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-08-09 13:12 ` Andi Kleen
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