Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:34:55 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport |
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On 02/22/2012 12:54 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This is a reasonably minimal backport of the i387 state save/restore bug. > > A few of the commits are just minimal "make it easier to backport" commits > that don't necessarily fix anything on their own. And a few of the others > are combinations of what is two commits in the development tree, because > it turned out to be easier and cleaner that way. > > The last one is the one that fixes the x86-32 bug, but the preemption > fixes are real fixes too, although they are probably not something that > anybody has necessarily ever hit in reality because the race window is so > small. Even so, if the fix itself isn't that important, the "make it > easier to backport the main one" would still be a big argument for it. > > I *really* hope that the people who could reproduce this bug will test the > back-port series too, since I never actually saw the bug personally to > begin with. And again, big thanks to Raphael who helped pinpoint and debug > this. >
Okay, this patchset does *NOT* work. It fails immediately on my system. I hadn't ever seen it fail so fast.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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