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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:57:55 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -stable] x86,preempt: Fix preemption for i386
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:19:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:36:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm not entirely clear on how acceptable it is to propose a different
> > > > patch for -stable than what we have upstream.
> > > 
> > > It's not all that common, but it certainly happens.
> > > 
> > > It's fine, as long as it mentions the commits that fix it upstream.
> > > And as long as it's well tested, of course.
> > 
> > I agree, I can take this as long as you say it's correct and tested...
> 
> As far as I understand the issue the patch is indeed correct and I have
> 3 independent people who confirm their previously reported issues are
> now cured (as testified by the Tested-by tags).
> 
> There has also been confirmation that upstream does no longer suffer the
> problem.

Thanks for that, I'll queue it up in a bit.

greg k-h