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Message-ID: <20120403132850.GE12464@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:28:50 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Don't apply 9f022e54b8ea82d1ecdf3bd78d9ab9f44d6b0655 to stable
 please.

> > Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
> > Date:   Mon Mar 12 11:36:33 2012 -0700
> > 
> >     x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries
> > 
> > With out this commit, if the bios lists bogus io-apic's, then we will
> > see some error messages ("Unable to reset IRR for apic")during linux
> > boot which are benign. But as this patch breaks Xen, I am ok if these
> > don't get applied to 'stable'. Also I think it is Ingo who added the
> > 'stable' tag. Ingo, are you ok with this?
> 
> What stable trees did this already go into in the releases today?

I see it in v3.2.x as:
273fb19 x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries

And in 3.0.x:
c2ec63e x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries

But I don't see it in 3.1.x tree?

> 
> You need to tell me what I need to revert here, SPECIFICALLY, and in
> what tree, if needed, otherwise I have no idea what is going on, sorry,
> I can't read minds.
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