Re: [PATCH 0/3] PTI for x86-32 Fixes and Updates

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Jul 23 2018 - 03:30:02 EST


Hey David,

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:49:00PM -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can trigger a bug in KVM+QEMU with the Bochs VGA
> driver. (This is the same VM definition I shared with you in a PM
> back on Feb. 20th, except note that 4.18 kernels won't successfully
> boot with QEMU's IDE device, so I'm using SATA instead. That's a
> regression totally unrelated to your change sets, or to the general
> booting issue with 4.18 RC5, since it occurs in vanilla RC4 as well.)

Yes, this needs the fixes in the tip/x86/mm branch as well. Can you that
branch in and test again, please?


Thanks,

Joerg