http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13751





--- Comment #31 from Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@sisk.pl>  2009-08-01 10:58:43 ---
On Saturday 01 August 2009, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 July 2009 06:59:59 pm Zhang Rui wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 05:54 +0800, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On some machines, a software-initiated SMI causes corruption unless the
> > > SMI runs on CPU 0.  An SMI can be initiated by any AML, but typically it's
> > > done in GPE-related methods that are run via workqueues, so we can avoid
> > > the known corruption cases by binding the workqueues to CPU 0.
> > > 
> > > References:
> > >     http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13751
> > >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157171
> > >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157691
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helg...@hp.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zh...@intel.com>
> 
> In addition to the reports above, I think it's likely this patch
> will fix the problems reported below:
> 
>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13412
>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11259
>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12328
>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12106
> 
> I think we should consider this patch for 2.6.31.
> 
> (Rafael, 13751 is on your "2.6.29 -> 2.6.30" regression list.
> I actually think it's been around much longer than that, but
> there seem to be many things that affect whether it manifests.)

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