linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Bug during kexec...not all cpus are stopped

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Message-ID: <4CC0AF9A.9050307@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:24:42 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	akataria@...are.com
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>,
	"jeremy@...source.com" <jeremy@...source.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Bug during kexec...not all cpus are stopped

On 10/21/2010 02:10 PM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 13:26 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 10/21/2010 12:09 PM, Alok Kataria wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think this patch was picked up for tip, now that the 2.6.37
>>> merge window is open can you please pick this up push it upstream.
>>> This patch fixes a legitimate regression, which was introduced during
>>> 2.6.30, by commit id 4ef702c10b5df18ab04921fc252c26421d4d6c75.
>>>
>>
>> It probably would have helped if the patch had had a proper patch header
>> and so on, and *in particular* not buried in a tree with [RFC PATCH].
>> RFC strongly implies that the patch is intended as a base for
>> discussion, and is explicitly not intended to be committed.
> 
> I see, I have sent another mail with the patch.
> 

I already took the patch and am running it through compile tests, but
that was mostly for future reference.

	-hpa
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