linux-kernel - Re: [28/39] x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments

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Message-ID: <AANLkTilJxUz_24qlnXdpKOTBzDTDAy2Q628UmFplXkML@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 May 2010 13:41:37 -0700
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Frank Arnold <frank.arnold@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [28/39] x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature 
	in virtualized environments

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:50:20PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > 2.6.33-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>> >
>> > ------------------
>> > From: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold@....com>
>> >
>> > commit 7f284d3cc96e02468a42e045f77af11e5ff8b095 upstream.
>>
>> Closer, but aren't all the XX/34s intended for 2.6.32.14, not 2.6.33.5?
>
> Yes.  This one is a XX/39 and for the .33 tree.

Sorry for wasting your time with that noise: you must think I'm mad,
but it appears to be a delightful feature of gmail, combining similar mails:
to me the Subject line says 20/34, but looking at marc I find as you say,
that I have replied to 28/39.

That's going to be a problem!

>
>> I'm trying to check whether my kernel/profile.c fix (18/34) is in for
>> both 2.6.32.14 and 2.6.33.5, but getting too confused to tell!
>
> Yes, I see it in both trees.

Thanks for your eyes: mine of course can only see it in one.

Hugh
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