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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 033/120] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix hardcoded socket
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 05:32:46AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/18/2017 05:25 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 4.9 is broken and requires additional patches beyond this patch.  Applying this 
> >> patch to 4.9 stable without those additional fixes will result in kernel panics 
> >> on some Haswell systems that boot on random cores.
> > 
> > Could you list the patches that are required? It would be nice to backport all 
> > required fixes to v4.9.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I'm going to do that once I get the system back.  I have a feeling that
> just the two additional patches are required but I want to make sure before I
> post anything.

So what do I do here?  Drop this single patch?  Add others now?  Ignore
it and leave it as-is?

still confused,

greg k-h