[ +to Thomas Hellstrom ] On 12/25/2014 08:57 PM, Qu Wenruo wrote: > Hi all, > > When testing v3.19-rc1 kernel(in fact, try to test), the kernel itself fail > to boot on VMware ESXi 5.1 guest.
Maybe this problem related to the other VMware PAT issue? > The boot failure is quite easy to describe, only one line is output: > "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...ok" > > No other output(including warning/bug_on/backtrace or whatever) and the guest > just hangs. > It's OK on v3.18, so it's a regression. > > Bisect points to the following commit: > commit f5b2831d654167d77da8afbef4d2584897b12d0c > Author: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> > Date: Mon Nov 3 14:02:02 2014 +0100 > > x86: Respect PAT bit when copying pte values between large and normal > pages > > The PAT bit in the ptes is not moved to the correct position when > copying page protection attributes between entries of different sized > pages. Translate the ptes according to their page size. > > > I have also created the kernel BZ report: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90321 > > Hopes this can be resolved in next rc. > > Thanks, > Qu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
