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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:14:35 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org, Raphael Prevost <raphael@...o.asia>, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport On 02/22/2012 03:31 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> Ok, I probably missed something when I skipped the patches that >> weren't appropriate for backporting (like the whole FPU state preload >> removal and rewriting). > > Ahh. Yes, I see what happened. > > The FPU preloading patches cleaned up __switch_to() to use the > appropriate helpers to set TS_USEDFPU, but since I skipped them > (because I felt they weren't appropriate for -stable), those cleanups > got missed. So then the __math_state_restore() > > Only the last patch needs fixing, methinks. Updated version attached. > > Linus Immediate failure, still. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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