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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot

* KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@oracle.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2017 4:04 AM
> > To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> > Cc: x86@kernel.org; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-
> > kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de;
> > apw@canonical.com; jasowang@redhat.com; tglx@linutronix.de;
> > hpa@zytor.com; mingo@kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 04:15:57PM -0700, kys@exchange.microsoft.com
> > wrote:
> > > From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
> > >
> > > Allocate the hypervisor callback IDT entry early in the boot sequence.
> > >
> >
> > I'm guessing this fixes a NULL dereference or something? The changelog
> > doesn't really say why we are doing this.
>
> The changelog does say what we are doing - allocating the IDT entry early in the boot sequence.

But the question was the 'why', not the 'what' - so Dan's question is
fully justified ...

> The current code would allocate the entry as part of registering the handler
> when vmbus driver loaded and this caused a problem for the cleanup Thomas had
> implemented.

I've put this explanation into the changelog.

Thanks,

Ingo

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