On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 05:21:47PM -0400, Ben Jencks wrote: > > On 10/02/2012 05:09 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 04:53:37PM -0400, Ben Jencks wrote: > > >> Would it be possible to get > > >> > > >> cb09cad44f07044d9810f18f6f9a6a6f3771f979 (in Linus's tree) > > >> x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels > > >> > > >> into 3.5 stable? Without it monolithic kernels panic almost immediately > > >> on modern Intel CPUs. > > > > > > I also forgot, what about older kernel releases? Do they have the same > > > problem (3.4, 3.2. 3.0, etc.)? > > > > It fixes a bug that was introduced (exposed, really) with > > > > 7eb54cf0b55d2160064a28a3fb929ddffed8b324 in 3.5.2 > > d6250a3f12edb3a86db9598ffeca3de8b4a219e9 in 3.6-rc2 > > > > It looks like the break was backported as > > > > cabf5b0af54cec6a2f9ce674cbc96fc8aa2fc468 in 3.4.9 > > 60ed9e385606f27c787710bba0dfdb7ff467bdf7 in 3.2.27 > > 7b1cad628030b9bbdaaa4bb8ff73cabaab6e82c9 in 3.0.41 > > > > so yes, this fix should be applied to the older releases, though I > > haven't tested them. > > Thanks, now queued up for the 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 kernels.
Also queued up for 3.2.y. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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