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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:03:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:03:10AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > So the transition to long mode for secondaries uses the trampoline pgd for
> > long mode transition and then jumping to secondary_startup_64 where CR3 is
> > set to the real kernel page tables.
> 
> Ok, so the summary is that this patch is only needed for the 4.4 and 4.9
> kernels, and _NOT_ for Linus's tree and 4.14, right?

Correct.