From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Additional x86 fixes for 2.6.31-rc5
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:05:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090810090506.GA9746@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B28277FD4E0F9247A3D55704C440A140D5D683F3@pgsmsx504.gar.corp.intel.com>
* Tan, Wei Chong <wei.chong.tan@intel.com> wrote:
> > Thanks. I've zapped the original patch from x86/urgent. Linus's
> > patch certainly looks feasible for .31 if it solves the problem
> > and if we can merge it in the next few days.
>
> Hi,
>
> Linus's patch looks good to go. I've tested it with 2 separate
> versions of BIOS, each 1000 cycles, without any wrong CPU
> frequency being reported. In contrast, the same CPU/platform
> without the patch will almost consistently report a wrong CPU
> frequency once every 20 cycles and once every 50 cycles
> respectively, for the 2 above mentioned BIOS.
Ok, i've created a changelog out of your and Linus's mail and have
committed the fix to x86/urgent - the -tip commit notification bot
will send it in a few minutes.
Linus, can i have your SOB line please?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-10 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-31 18:13 [GIT PULL] Additional x86 fixes for 2.6.31-rc5 H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-31 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-31 19:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-01 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-01 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-01 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-01 22:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-02 1:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-08-02 3:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-03 1:01 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-03 1:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 1:49 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-03 2:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-03 5:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses Tejun Heo
2009-08-03 5:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-03 5:18 ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-03 6:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-03 6:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-03 6:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-03 7:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-03 15:13 ` [PATCH 1/3 UPDATED] x86, percpu: " Tejun Heo
2009-08-03 5:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86,percpu: fix DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() Tejun Heo
2009-08-03 5:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline Tejun Heo
2009-08-05 7:34 ` [GIT PULL] Additional x86 fixes for 2.6.31-rc5 Tan, Wei Chong
2009-08-05 8:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-10 0:42 ` Tan, Wei Chong
2009-08-10 9:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-08-10 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-10 9:06 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb() tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2009-08-10 18:01 ` tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2009-08-05 23:10 ` [GIT PULL] Additional x86 fixes for 2.6.31-rc5 Tan, Wei Chong
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