From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 14:04:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170909105428.osqbcf4gnibobpse@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170908231557.2419-1-kys@exchange.microsoft.com>
On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 04:15:57PM -0700, kys@exchange.microsoft.com wrote:
> From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
>
> Allocate the hypervisor callback IDT entry early in the boot sequence.
>
I'm guessing this fixes a NULL dereference or something? The changelog
doesn't really say why we are doing this.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-09 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-08 23:15 [PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot kys
2017-09-09 11:04 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2017-09-09 16:00 ` KY Srinivasan
2017-09-13 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-09-13 18:05 ` KY Srinivasan
2017-09-13 9:25 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for K. Y. Srinivasan
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2017-09-08 21:54 [PATCH 1/1] " K. Y. Srinivasan
2017-09-09 9:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-09-09 15:58 ` KY Srinivasan
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