From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] ACPI: Fix a regression of the table checksum verification. Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:10:26 +0200 Message-ID: <538DD752.4080404@intel.com> References: <26459685.K8HWMtpZlE@vostro.rjw.lan> <1AE640813FDE7649BE1B193DEA596E8802574758@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:63781 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752556AbaFCOKa (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 10:10:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1AE640813FDE7649BE1B193DEA596E8802574758@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Zheng, Lv" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Lv Zheng Cc: "Brown, Len" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On 6/3/2014 4:36 AM, Zheng, Lv wrote: > Hi, Rafael > >> From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@rjwysocki.net] >> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 6:50 AM >> >> On Saturday, May 31, 2014 08:14:26 AM Lv Zheng wrote: >>> From: Lv Zheng >>> >>> There is a warning message triggered by the early table chekcusm >>> verification during boot. Large tables cannot be installed on x86 platforms >>> due to this failure. The root cause is the size limitation of the current >>> x86 early mapping implementation, it's thus not suitable to be used to map >>> ACPI tables. >>> >>> This patchset fixes this regression by stopping verifying table checksums >>> during the early boot stage. >> Both queued up for 3.16. >> >> If they are needed in -stable, please take care of sending an appropriate >> inclusion request to stable@vger.kernel.org after they have been merged into >> the Linus' tree. > I checked. > The affected code can only be found in linux-pm.git/linux-next. > So they are not needed in -stable. Thanks for checking! Rafael