linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Clear irqstack thread

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:45:10 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	brgerst@...il.com, arjan@...ux.intel.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux@...z-ka.de, mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Clear irqstack thread_info

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:03 +0000, tip-bot for Brian Gerst wrote:
> Commit-ID:  7b698ea377e10b074ceef0d79218e6622d618421
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/7b698ea377e10b074ceef0d79218e6622d618421
> Author:     Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:32:10 -0500
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> CommitDate: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:58:37 +0100
> 
> x86: Clear irqstack thread_info
> 
> Mathias Merz reported that v2.6.37 failed to boot on his
> system.
> 
> Make sure that the thread_info part of the irqstack is
> initialized to zeroes.
> 
> Reported-and-Tested-by: Matthias Merz <linux@...z-ka.de>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimyKXfJ1x8tgwrr1hYnNLrPfgE1NTe4z7L6tUDm@...l.gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

This needs to be tagged for -stable as well.

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