linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpu/cacheinfo: Fix teardown path

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Message-ID: <55F51FDC.9090108@manjaro.org>
Date:	Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:03:56 +0200
From:	Philip Müller <philm@...jaro.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, manjaro-dev@...jaro.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
	manjaro-dev@...jaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu/cacheinfo: Fix teardown path

On 08.08.2015 21:47, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> What commit caused this issue?
> 
> Apparently
> 
>  0d55ba46bfbe ("x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs code to generic infrastructure")
> 
> Looks like moving x86 to the generic cacheinfo stuff uncovered this
> shortcoming there...
> 
>> And it's a bit late for 4.2, as you say 4.1 is also affected, I'll wait
>> for 4.3-rc1 to give this a chance to get some testing.
> 
> Right, I guess that's fine too as it'll trickle to stable eventually...
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Just a note from my end. Seems this patch didn't made it into 4.3-rc1.
Any reason why?

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