linux-kernel - Re: what's up for v2.6.25 in x86.git

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Message-Id: <200801221213.53490.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:13:53 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: what's up for v2.6.25 in x86.git

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:14, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Nick Piggin (5):
>       mm: fix PageUptodate memory ordering bug

This should actually be named differently. It should be
called

x86: don't unconditionally enable expensive SMP ppro workaround

I actually had a more complete patch which printed a warning if
booting such a system without the config option.

View attachment "x86-no-ppro-fence.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (2696 bytes)