From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Raphael Prevost <raphael@buro.asia>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:52:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120223215242.GA1306@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120223211016.GA16275@kroah.com>
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:10:16PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:51:56PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 02/23/2012 12:48 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:29:56PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > >> On 02/23/2012 12:09 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I've applied this now to the 3.0 and 3.2-stable trees. It looks like it
> > >>> would work on the 2.6.32-stable tree, but it needs some tweaks, and as I
> > >>> can't really test this, and the .32-stable tree is probably not going to
> > >>> have problems in this area, I'll let someone else generate those patches
> > >>> and test them if they feel it is needed there.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> It doesn't seem to appear in the stable git tree... anywhere I can get
> > >> your tree so I can test these out?
> > >
> > > They are in the stable-queue git tree at:
> > > /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
> > > on git.kernel.org
> > >
> > > Testing them out would be great, if you want, I can knock up a git tree
> > > with just these patches in it on 3.2.7 or anything else you need to test
> > > with, if that makes it easier for you.
> > >
> >
> > That would be awesome.
>
> Ok, the patches are at:
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/stable-test.git linux-3.2.y-i387-test
>
> They are on top of the 3.2.7 kernel release.
>
> If that doesn't work for you, please let me know.
I would test this too, but apart from ensuring my kernel still boots,
how do I ensure the patches do really fix what the ought to fix ? I
must admit I didn't catch the initial issue they were supposed to fix
unfortunately :-/
Thanks,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 20:54 [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 20:56 ` [PATCH 1/5] i387: math_state_restore() isn't called from asm Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 20:56 ` [PATCH 2/5] i387: make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 20:57 ` [PATCH 3/5] i387: fix x86-64 preemption-unsafe user stack save/restore Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 20:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] i387: move TS_USEDFPU clearing out of __save_init_fpu and into callers Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 5/5] i387: move TS_USEDFPU flag from thread_info to task_struct Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 21:02 ` [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-22 21:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-22 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 21:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-22 21:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 20:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 20:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 20:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 21:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 21:52 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2012-02-23 22:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 22:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-02-23 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 22:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 22:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-02-23 22:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 23:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-02-23 22:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-02-23 22:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 23:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 23:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 23:19 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-02-23 23:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 23:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-24 0:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-22 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-22 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-22 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 0:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 0:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 1:47 ` raphael
2012-02-23 2:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 2:41 ` raphael
2012-02-23 3:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 18:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 19:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 19:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 19:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-23 20:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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