Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

Ingo Molnar
2012-04-04T06:56:25Z

* Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:45:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Linus,
> >
> > Please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus
>
> Hey Ingo,
>
> I was wondering what happend to the two patches to fix the
> regression introduced by Suresh's patch (the "x86, ioapic: add
> register checks for bogus io-apic entries")?

That's really a Xen bug (if real hw behaves well then Xen can
behave well too, right?) - I suggest you should work it around
in Xen first - I wanted to wait with applying more invasive
ioapic changes, that's probably v3.5 material anyway. The
patches arrived in the middle of the merge window.

Thanks,

Ingo