It's been a while on this patch set; two weeks ago Kirill added acks, no movement since. Is there anything I need to be doing on my part to move this forward?
Thanks! --> Steve Wahl On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 04:03:22PM -0500, Steve Wahl wrote: > This patch set narrows the valid space addressed by the page table > level2_kernel_pgt to only contain ranges checked against the "usable > RAM" list provided by the BIOS. > > Prior to this, some larger than needed mappings were occasionally > crossing over into spaces marked reserved, allowing the processor to > access these reserved spaces, which were caught by the hardware and > caused BIOS to halt on our platform (UV). > > Changes since v1: > > * Cover letter added because there's now two patches. > > * Patch 1: Added comment and re-worked changelog text. > > * Patch 2: New change requested by Dave Hansen to handle the case that > the mapping of the last PMD page for the kernel image could cross a > reserved region boundary. > > Changes since v2: > > * Patch 1: Added further inline comments. > * Patch 2: None. > > Steve Wahl (2): > x86/boot/64: Make level2_kernel_pgt pages invalid outside kernel area. > x86/boot/64: round memory hole size up to next PMD page. > > arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.21.0 > > > -- > Steve Wahl, Hewlett Packard Enterprise -- Steve Wahl, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
