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

From Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot
Date 2017-09-09 13:10 +0200
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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.

regards,
dan carpenter

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[PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot  kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2017-09-09 01:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2017-09-09 13:10 +0200
    RE: [PATCH 1/1] x86/hyper-V: Allocate the IDT entry early in boot KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2017-09-09 18:10 +0200

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