Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 2010 16:32:07 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [113/197] x86, cacheinfo: Calculate L3 indices |
| |
On 05/12/2010 04:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> >> So if K8_NB has failed initializing for some reason, we never go near >> the pci devs and the node_to_k8_nb_misc() calls since we effectively >> disable the L3 functionality. >> >> Thus the NULL pointer checks you remove in the patch below are >> superfluous, I agree, and I have already removed those in my tree along >> with the other improvements/fixes I'm working on right now. > > So, was there ever a patch applied that fixed the bug that Jiri found in > the stable kernels with this original patch that I could apply? >
Sounds like this patch in -tip should be promoted to mainline/stable... could the AMD people please confirm?
-hpa
| |