From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754383AbYIHPDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:03:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754602AbYIHPCz (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:02:55 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f16.google.com ([209.85.217.16]:40857 "EHLO mail-gx0-f16.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752749AbYIHPCy (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:02:54 -0400 From: David Sanders Reply-To: linux@sandersweb.net To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 fixes (NOPL issue) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:02:49 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , x86 maintainers References: <200809060222.m862MVtP024813@askone.hos.anvin.org> In-Reply-To: <200809060222.m862MVtP024813@askone.hos.anvin.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809081102.49636.linux@sandersweb.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 05 September 2008 22:22, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > This fixes the NOPL issue by detecting it explicitly. I don't have > access to Virtual PC, but this works on Virtual Server 2005 R2 which > has the same issue. These changes have been in -tip since August 18, > so they have had some reasonable degree of exposure already. > We it be possible to send these fixes back the stable trees 2.6.26.y and 2.6.25.y? David