linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/idt: load idt early in start

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Message-ID: <20171128095606.462207cb@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:56:06 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Chunyu Hu <chuhu@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/idt: load idt early in start_secondary

On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 23:57:36 -0500 (EST)
Chunyu Hu <chuhu@...hat.com> wrote:

> > Except that this is presumably missing a Cc: stable.  
> 
> Do I need to resend this origin version and Cc stable?

No. Adding a "Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org" to the patch (and really to
the change log of the commit) will flag the stable maintainers to
backport the patch to the stable trees when it gets accepted by Linus.

-- Steve