Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes

[Waiman Long]

On 09/20/2016 10:48 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Folks, please pull the following two fixes that address the boot hang
> issue Waiman reported here,
>
>    https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57DF56D4.50304@xxxxxxx
>
> The following changes since commit 3be7988674ab33565700a37b210f502563d932e6:
>
>    Linux 4.8-rc7 (2016-09-18 17:27:41 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 1297667083d5442aafe3e337b9413bf02b114edb:
>
>    x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page tables if in mixed-mode (2016-09-20 14:53:04 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   * Fix a boot hang on large memory machines (multiple terabyte) caused
>     by type conversion errors in the x86 pat code - Matt Fleming
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Matt Fleming (2):
>        x86/mm/pat: Prevent hang during boot when mapping pages
>        x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page tables if in mixed-mode
>
>   arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c         | 21 +++++++++++----------
>   arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c |  2 +-
>   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Are you also going to send these fixes to the 4.6 and 4.7 stable trees 
as well?

Cheers,
Longman