Re: [PATCH] mm/x86: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when runningon bare metal

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 19:53:59 EST


On 02/28/2013 04:42 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:36:29AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:15:45PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> I'll try to get someone to test this tomorrow.
>>
>> Btw, you'd need to apply that other patch too
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=136206183814547&w=2
>>
>> so that arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() has at least one caller on x86_64.
>
> Yeah, we already have that applied. It stops crashes in xen
> environments so we pulled it in as a bugfix. Thanks though!
>

Who are "we"?

-hpa


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