linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <521F5297.4070906@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:54:31 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, vgoyal@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jingbai.ma@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP

On 08/29/2013 02:27 AM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> This is the patch series to address the issue that kdump 2nd kernel
> now fails to wake up multiple CPUs.

Please explain the "now" in the above sentence.  Is this a regression?
If so, what is its impact?  Is this something that needs to go into 3.11
as a post-rc7 change, which means it better be hyper-critical?

	-hpa


--
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/