Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:00:32 +0100 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: backport Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self to stable kernels? |
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 08:25:33AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > 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=1c52d859cb2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9 > > > > > > 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=c198b121b1a1d7a7171770c634cd49191bac4477 > > > > > > 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.
Now applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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