linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:07 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@...inf.tu-dresden.de>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Stable Team <stable@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access
	before C3 arbiter shutdown

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 18:07 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Andrew Morton (akpm@...ux-foundation.org) wrote:
> > hm, this needs a bit of help to get it to work against Len's current tree.
> 
> Here's some help, compile tested only.  Udo/Thomas, was this found to
> be root cause of a real bug?  I didn't want this to get lost if it's
> still meant to be relevant for -stable.

Chris,

I fixed this against -mm already. I don't think that it is relevant for
stable. The issue was found with Venkis hpet force enable patches on a
ICH4 system. I doubt that any of those systems has hpet enabled in the
BIOS. It should not affect later ICH chip sets. Venki, is this correct ?

	tglx


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