linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL, v2] x86/cpu changes for v2.6.35

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Message-ID: <20100518063350.GB26223@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 08:33:50 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL, v2] x86/cpu changes for v2.6.35


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Date: Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:54:26AM +0200
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> >       x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
> 
> [..]
> 
> >       x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
> 
> [..]
> 
> >       powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
> 
> those three are already in Linus' tree since they were 
> urgent fixes and had to be sent ASAP. [...]

Yeah, hpa mentioned it last week in his pull request that 
those fixes were picked out of the stream of pending 
development commits.

> [...] Now I don't know whether git will skip them when 
> merging or will cause unneeded merge conflicts (a small 
> superficial test I did here caused merge conflicts) ... 
> anyways, just a heads-up.

In this particular case there will be a conflict in 
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c when Linus pulls, 
and the correct resolution is to pick the version from 
x86/cpu.

Thanks for mentioning this!

	Ingo
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