From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756580Ab1BCRMS (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:12:18 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59342 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756065Ab1BCRMR (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:12:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4AE1DF.9030106@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:11:59 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Kees Cook , matthieu castet , Linux Kernel list , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [BUG] broken ebba638ae723d8a8fc2f7abce5ec18b688b791d7 References: <4D41E86D.8060205@free.fr> <201102031230.13759.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <3ba4a711-ac8b-46aa-b585-51c8b9881c8c@email.android.com> <201102032032.08848.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <201102032032.08848.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/03/2011 02:02 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 01:05:44 pm H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Can we completely kill the "don't reload segments" flag, then? > > We can as far as *I* am concerned, but of course it's a separate issue... I'm trying to figure out if there is any actual user of it. I thought it was Xen which needed it, but Jeremy says it doesn't; I don't know what else would possible need it. If it is is something that isn't used then it would be better to get rid of it. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.