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

[Matt Fleming]

On Tue, 20 Sep, at 11:20:17AM, Waiman Long wrote:
> 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?

I just checked and I failed to tag the first patch for stable, though
I did mean to. Yes, I'll send them to stable once they're merged.