linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] x86, cacheinfo, amd: L3 Cache Index Disable fixes

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:06:47 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, andreas.herrmann3@....com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] x86, cacheinfo, amd: L3 Cache Index Disable
 fixes

Hi Ingo,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:32:23PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Well, if there's a crasher in there, then a minimal fix to address just that 
> > is preferred for .33 - and that can be tagged for -stable immediately.
> 
> As I said earlier, I don't believe we have machines in the wild to
> practically support the feature yet so we should be OK without a fix.
> Let me verify that next week and get back to you with a minimal fix in
> case we have any affected configurations.

I could verify that we don't need a minimal fix for .33 for the reason
above so the 5 fixes for .34 merge window should suffice completely.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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