Re: [Xen-devel] [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v3.9-rc1

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Again... you probably want to check into Dave's debug changes first. Makes more 
sense.

Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Stefano Stabellini
><stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:12:57AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> > On 02/22/2013 08:55 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >What is bizzare is that I do recall testing this (and Stefano
>also did it).
>>> > >So I am not sure what has altered.
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > Yes, there was a very specific reason why I wanted you guys to
>test it...
>>>
>>> Exactly. And I re-ran the same test, but with a new kernel. This is
>what
>>> git reflog tells me:
>>>
>>> 473cd24 HEAD@{75}: checkout: moving from
>08f321ed97353cf3b3fafa6b1c1971d6a8970830 to linux-next
>>> 08f321e HEAD@{76}: checkout: moving from linux-next to
>yinghai/for-x86-mm
>>> eb827a7 HEAD@{77}: checkout: moving from
>1b66ccf15ff4bd0200567e8d70446a8763f96ee7 to linux-next
>>> [konrad@build linux]$ git show 08f321e
>>> commit 08f321ed97353cf3b3fafa6b1c1971d6a8970830
>>> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date:   Thu Nov 8 00:00:19 2012 -0800
>>>
>>>     mm: Kill NO_BOOTMEM version free_all_bootmem_node()
>>>
>>> And I recall Stefano later on testing (I was in a conference and did
>not have
>>> the opportunity to test it). Not sure what he ran with.
>>>
>>
>> FYI the last patch series I tested was Yinghai's "x86, boot, 64bit:
>Add
>> support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G" v7u1.
>
>
>the one in tip and linus's tree is
>---
>-v7u2: update changelog and comments, and clear more fields for
>sentinel.
>     Update swiotlb autoswitch off patch.
>     Fix crash with xen PV guest with 2G.
>---
>
>and it fixes xen crash that you reported with v7u1, and you tested
>that add-on patch
>fix_xen_2g.patch with v7u1.
>and I fold the addon patch into offending patch in v7u2.
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Yinghai

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