Re: [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table

2013-01-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/10/2013 12:27 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: So at that time how can the Signed-off from them? And there are commits in the upstream does not have Signed-off from the Author. I certainly hope those are a very very small number, if any. There are indeed a handful, at which point the first

Re: [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table

2013-01-10 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:05:46AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > This is not how SOB chaining works: > > > > SOB: Author > > SOB: Handler - this is you, who has added it to the patchset > > SOB: Committer - maintainer > > > > You need to rea

Re: [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table

2013-01-10 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > This is not how SOB chaining works: > > SOB: Author > SOB: Handler - this is you, who has added it to the patchset > SOB: Committer - maintainer > > You need to read Documentation/SubmittingPatches if there's still things > unclear. Really

Re: [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table

2013-01-10 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 05:56:07PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Those -vXX version lines need to go under the "---" line. Alternatively, > > you might want to add some of them to the commit message with a proper > > explanation since they ar

Re: [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table

2013-01-09 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Those -vXX version lines need to go under the "---" line. Alternatively, > you might want to add some of them to the commit message with a proper > explanation since they are not that trivial at a first glance, for > example the -v5, -v6, -v

Re: [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table

2013-01-07 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:48:28PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > From: "H. Peter Anvin" > > two use cases: > 1. We will support load and run kernel above 4G, and zero_page, ramdisk >will be above 4G, too > 2. need to access ramdisk early to get microcode to update that as >early possible. >

[PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table

2013-01-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
From: "H. Peter Anvin" two use cases: 1. We will support load and run kernel above 4G, and zero_page, ramdisk will be above 4G, too 2. need to access ramdisk early to get microcode to update that as early possible. We could use early_iomap to access them, but it will make code to messy and