From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: __supported_pte_mask breaks PROT_NONE pages
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:00:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498B2943.8000602@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090205173050.GB24599@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>>> btw., did you actually see a boot crash due to this, on a pre-PGE system?
>>>
>>>
>> No, under Xen, since it also disables PGE.
>>
>
> but it was a boot crash, right? Such info is useful in the first line of a
> commit message:
>
> Impact: fix non-PGE boot crash
>
> (that also makes it less likely that the commit is under-prioritized.)
It's not immediate; in early usermode. It only happens when using a
populated PROTNONE page, which is actually pretty rare, it seems -
perhaps made more common by the new mlock code. But, yes, it stopped my
machine from booting.
J
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 2:33 __supported_pte_mask breaks PROT_NONE pages Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-05 5:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-05 14:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 14:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 17:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-05 17:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 18:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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