Re: [PATCH] x86/powernow: fix cpus_allowed brokage when acpi=off

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:17:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > >    Yinghai, as far as I can tell your other fixes are independent (and
 > > were a problem before this commit, yes?).  Can you re-submit them on top
 > > of this patch (which is for Ingo, but against latest Linus).
 > > 
 > > Subject: cpumask: fix powernow-k8: partial revert of 2fdf66b491ac706657946442789ec644cc317e1a
 > > 
 > > Impact: fix powernow-k8 when acpi=off (or other error).
 > > 
 > > There was a spurious change introduced into powernow-k8 in this patch:
 > > the cause if that we try to "restore" the cpus_allowed we never saved.
 > > 
 > > See lkml "[PATCH] x86/powernow: fix cpus_allowed brokage when
 > > acpi=off" from Yinghai for the bug report.
 > > 
 > > Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
 > > Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
 > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
 > 
 > applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks guys!
 > 
 > Dave, is it fine if we send the fix to Linus via this route - or would you 
 > like to do it yourself?

I thought this was only in your tree, so I was letting you do the work anyway :-)

I'm fine with it, as long as it goes in soon.

	Dave

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