linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -stable] x86,preempt: Fix preemption for i386

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Message-ID: <20140409195755.GA12513@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:57:55 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@...amail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	David Cohen <david.a.cohen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -stable] x86,preempt: Fix preemption for i386

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:19:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:36:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm not entirely clear on how acceptable it is to propose a different
> > > > patch for -stable than what we have upstream.
> > > 
> > > It's not all that common, but it certainly happens.
> > > 
> > > It's fine, as long as it mentions the commits that fix it upstream.
> > > And as long as it's well tested, of course.
> > 
> > I agree, I can take this as long as you say it's correct and tested...
> 
> As far as I understand the issue the patch is indeed correct and I have
> 3 independent people who confirm their previously reported issues are
> now cured (as testified by the Tested-by tags).
> 
> There has also been confirmation that upstream does no longer suffer the
> problem.

Thanks for that, I'll queue it up in a bit.

greg k-h
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