From: "Zhang, Ning A" <ning.a.zhang@intel.com>
To: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: backport Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self to stable kernels?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:19:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <027FCDD209E4CC4181A7B9D5DBB880575FDD9DEC@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180123072533.GA17566@kroah.com>
Thanks Greg, Andy
How about c198b121b1a1d7a7171770c634cd49191bac4477?
Will both patches go to stable kernel?
BR.
Ning.
-----Original Message-----
From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:26 PM
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang, Ning A <ning.a.zhang@intel.com>; tglx@linutronix.de; stable@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: backport Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self to stable kernels?
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:06:29PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Zhang, Ning A <ning.a.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> > hello, Greg, Andy, Thomas
> >
> > would you like to backport these two patches to LTS kernel?
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.
> > git/commit/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h?h=v4.14.14&id=1c52d859cb
> > 2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9
> >
> > x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit
> > kernels
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.
> > git/commit/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h?h=v4.14.14&id=c198b121b1
> > a1d7a7171770c634cd49191bac4477
> >
> > x86/asm: Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self
> >
>
> I'd be in favor of backporting
> 1c52d859cb2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9. I see no compelling reason
> to backport the other one, since it doesn't fix a bug. Greg, can you
> do this?
I'll work on this after this round of stable kernels are released.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-24 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-23 2:59 backport Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self to stable kernels? Zhang, Ning A
2018-01-23 3:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-23 7:25 ` gregkh
2018-01-24 8:19 ` Zhang, Ning A [this message]
2018-01-24 9:01 ` gregkh
2018-01-25 2:22 ` Zhang, Ning A
2018-01-25 6:50 ` gregkh
2018-01-24 9:00 ` gregkh
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