[Xen-devel] x86 PAT fixes for stable

2016-05-24 Thread Kani, Toshimitsu
Hello, The following patches fix two x86 PAT issues reported in 4.4 [1][2]. Can you please backport them up to 4.4?  1/7 x86/mm/pat: Add support of non-default PAT MSR setting 02f037d641dc6672be5cfe7875a48ab99b95b154 2/7 x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interfacecommit

Re: [Xen-devel] PAT-related crash booting Linux 4.4 + Xen 4.5 on VMware ESXi

2016-05-24 Thread Kani, Toshimitsu
On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 11:54 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 05/24/2016 10:53 AM, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 15:52 -0700, Ed Swierk wrote: > > > > > > Good question. I ran my tests again, and found I'd misinterpreted the > > &g

Re: [Xen-devel] PAT-related crash booting Linux 4.4 + Xen 4.5 on VMware ESXi

2016-05-24 Thread Kani, Toshimitsu
On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 15:52 -0700, Ed Swierk wrote: > Good question. I ran my tests again, and found I'd misinterpreted the > Fusion behavior. > > On Fusion 8.1.1, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT returns a reasonable value: > > (XEN) Freed 308kB init memory. > mapping kernel into physical memory > cpu_has_pat=0