This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-asm-32-make-sync_core-handle-missing-cpuid-on-all-32-bit-kernels.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


From 1c52d859cb2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 10:24:05 -0800
Subject: x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 1c52d859cb2d417e7216d3e56bb7fea88444cec9 upstream.

We support various non-Intel CPUs that don't have the CPUID
instruction, so the M486 test was wrong.  For now, fix it with a big
hammer: handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit CPUs.

Reported-by: One Thousand Gnomes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Whitehead <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: xen-devel <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/685bd083a7c036f7769510b6846315b17d6ba71f.1481307769.git.l...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static inline void sync_core(void)
 {
        int tmp;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_M486
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
        /*
         * Do a CPUID if available, otherwise do a jump.  The jump
         * can conveniently enough be the jump around CPUID.


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/x86-asm-32-make-sync_core-handle-missing-cpuid-on-all-32-bit-kernels.patch

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