Re: CPA boot crash (was: [PATCH] [0/36] Great change_page_attr patch series v3)

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To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <jbeulich@...>, <venkatesh.pallipadi@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 9:23 am

> First priority is getting CPA and PAT consolidated before we put new

PAT seems to be still quite unstable and frankly for me it is 
unclear how long it will take to it become stable. It would
not surprise me if it takes longer than the .26 merge window.

You're saying you want to delay an relatively simple and imho
relatively mature feature like gbpages after that complicated and risky 
feature PAT? Please take a look at the patches; they're really
not very complicated.

That seems to me like against your own principles -- simple stuff
first -- that you two harped on so extensively on earlier this thread.

For me it would make much more sense to put the gbpages first
than to delay them for PAT. I only didn't argue this strongly
earlier because PAT was already rushed in (for me quite suprisingly) 
and I didn't want to argue for dropping it.

But now that it is gone again anyways delaying the gbpages for it again
would be quite unfortunate from my perspective.

-Andi
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Re: CPA boot crash (was: [PATCH] [0/36] Great change_page_at..., Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 22, 9:23 am)
[PATCH] [35/36] Remove set_kernel_exec, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:15 pm)
[PATCH] [36/36] Clean up pte_exec, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:15 pm)
[PATCH] [14/36] CPA: Add simple self test at boot, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:15 pm)
[PATCH] [10/36] Add pte_pgprot on i386, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:15 pm)
[PATCH] [9/36] Add pte accessors for the global bit, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:15 pm)
[PATCH] [8/36] CPA: Do a simple self test at boot, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:15 pm)
[PATCH] [4/36] CPA: Undo white space changes, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:15 pm)
[PATCH] [1/36] Undo pat cpa patch, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 16, 6:14 pm)