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[Xen-devel] Re: __supported_pte_mask breaks PROT_NONE pages



Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ingo Molnar wrote:
btw., did you actually see a boot crash due to this, on a pre-PGE system?
No, under Xen, since it also disables PGE.

but it was a boot crash, right? Such info is useful in the first line of a commit message:

  Impact: fix non-PGE boot crash

(that also makes it less likely that the commit is under-prioritized.)

It's not immediate; in early usermode. It only happens when using a populated PROTNONE page, which is actually pretty rare, it seems - perhaps made more common by the new mlock code. But, yes, it stopped my machine from booting.

   J

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