Re: [Lguest/x86]: Clash with ioremap_nocache() + _PAGE_PWT

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Beginning from commit 4138cc3418f5, ioremap_nocache() sets the _PAGE_PWT
> flag. 
> 
> Lguest doesn't accept a guest pte with a _PWT flag and reports a "bad 
> page table entry" in that case.
> 
> I've removed check from lguest code and everything worked fine. Is 
> this safe from the Lguest side ?

yes, should be safe. Could you send a patch so that others can apply it 
too?

	Ingo
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