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

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> 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.
> 
> Ingo, the first patch should address your concerns from the earlier
> version.
> 
> Andy Lutomirski (7):
>   selftests/x86/ldt_gdt_32: Work around a glibc sigaction bug
>   x86/gdt: Fix setup_fixmap_gdt() to use the correct PA
>   x86/efi/32: Fix EFI on systems where the percpu GDT is virtually
>     mapped
>   x86/boot/32: Defer resyncing initial_page_table until percpu is set up
>   x86/gdt: Get rid of the get_*_gdt_*_vaddr() helpers
>   x86/xen/gdt: Use X86_FEATURE_XENPV instead of globals for the GDT
>     fixup
>   x86/boot/32: Rewrite test_wp_bit()

Ok, looks mostly good to me and I've applied the first 6 patches to tip:x86/mm and 
will push them out if everything tests out fine.

Regarding patch #7: could you please split the last patch into two, and rebase the 
wp_works_ok removal on the very latest tip:x86/mm tree? There's some pending 
changes in tip:x86/process that conflict badly, so I've merged it into tip:x86/mm 
for a conflict-free base. That patch is better split in two anyway, as it does two 
only marginally related things.

Thanks,

	Ingo