Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-09-05 Thread Jan Beulich
Stas, Petr, I know it's been a while since this was discussed and integrated into mainline, but I just now came across this, and following all of the original discussion that I was able to locate I didn't see any mention of a potential different approach to solving the problem which, as it would

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-09-05 Thread Jan Beulich
Stas, Petr, I know it's been a while since this was discussed and integrated into mainline, but I just now came across this, and following all of the original discussion that I was able to locate I didn't see any mention of a potential different approach to solving the problem which, as it would

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-15 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: I added this patch to -mm. Many thanks! Alan, sorry for bothering you with that. - If the patch patches something which is in Linus's kernel, prepare a diff against Linus's latest kernel. - If the patch patches something which is only in -mm, prepare a patch

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-15 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: I added this patch to -mm. Many thanks! Alan, sorry for bothering you with that. - If the patch patches something which is in Linus's kernel, prepare a diff against Linus's latest kernel. - If the patch patches something which is only in -mm, prepare a patch

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > >> Alan, can you please apply that to an -ac > >> tree? > > Ask Andrew Morton as it belongs in the -mm tree > Actually I tried that already. I added this patch to -mm. > Andrew > had nothing against that patch personally, > as

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi! Alan Cox wrote: Alan, can you please apply that to an -ac tree? Ask Andrew Morton as it belongs in the -mm tree Actually I tried that already. Andrew had nothing against that patch personally, as well as Linus, but after all that didn't work: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/3/260 So it can't be

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:06:36AM +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote: > Alan, can you please apply that to an -ac > tree? Ask Andrew Morton as it belongs in the -mm tree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:06:36AM +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote: Alan, can you please apply that to an -ac tree? Ask Andrew Morton as it belongs in the -mm tree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi! Alan Cox wrote: Alan, can you please apply that to an -ac tree? Ask Andrew Morton as it belongs in the -mm tree Actually I tried that already. Andrew had nothing against that patch personally, as well as Linus, but after all that didn't work: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/3/260 So it can't be

Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Stas Sergeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Alan, can you please apply that to an -ac tree? Ask Andrew Morton as it belongs in the -mm tree Actually I tried that already. I added this patch to -mm. Andrew had nothing against that patch personally, as well as Linus,

[patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Linus Torvalds wrote: I think Pavel missed the fact that you have to check the VM86 bit in Ah, thanks, I must have forgotten the essentials of the own patch :( That said, the "ldt_ss" case should be moved _after_ the conditional tests, since most CPU's out there will do static prediction

[patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

2005-03-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Linus Torvalds wrote: I think Pavel missed the fact that you have to check the VM86 bit in Ah, thanks, I must have forgotten the essentials of the own patch :( That said, the ldt_ss case should be moved _after_ the conditional tests, since most CPU's out there will do static prediction