On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:19:27PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Here's a fixed version of the breakage the 0day bot reported:
>
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> From: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 01:34:49 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH -v1.1] x86: Optimize clear_page()
>
> Currently, we CALL clear_page() which then JMPs to the proper function
> chosen by the alternatives.
>
> What we should do instead is CALL the proper function directly. (This
> was something Ingo suggested a while ago). So let's do that.
>
> Measuring our favourite kernel build workload shows that there are no
> significant changes in performance.
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> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> [ Forgot to add clobbers. ]
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang...@intel.com>
Fengguang just confirmed too:
"Yes it works fine for 300 boots.
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>"
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
