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SubjectRe: [stable] [PATCH urgent] x86: Save cr4 to mmu_cr4_features at boot time
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:08:12PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>
> > P.S.
> >
> > I asked for a backport of e5f15b45ddf3afa2bbbb10c7ea34fb32b6de0a0e to the
> > stable trees because I forgot to add "CC stable@kernel.org" to the commit
> > message and this commit is needed to fix a critical crash on boot on xen.
>
> You are displaying a dangerously amateurish attitude towards quality control
> and you clealy have no idea what it takes to push fixes into -stable.
>
> You forwarded a brand-new, visibly dangerous native kernel commit to -stable
> without Cc:-ing the maintainers and you have caused a native kernel regression
> that way. You are not maintaining the code in question and you have not
> committed the patch in question.
>
> -stable team, please revert this commit. The whole issue obviously needs more
> testing and we'll forward a proper fix once it's available and tested.

Ok, when I return from vacation on Tuesday I will revert it and do new
releases.

thanks,

greg k-h


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