linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI / CPPC: Fix per-CPU pointers management

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Date:   Mon, 12 Dec 2016 02:00:36 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, jolsa@...hat.com,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI / CPPC: Fix per-CPU pointers management

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@...utronix.de> wrote:
> On 2016-12-10 00:52:28 [+0100], Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> The crash fixed by this is exposed by the ITMT (asymmetric packing) series
>> (which involves using ACPI CPPC on x86), so IMO it would be good to route it
>> through tip along with that series.
>
> can we get this merged into the original patch please?

Functionally, that patch has a little to do with the fix, so I'd
rather not do that.

> This is default y  and breaks bisecting.

Instead, I would reorder the series to put the fix in front of that patch.

Thanks,
Rafael