From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752852Ab0EFHIE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2010 03:08:04 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:57708 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751108Ab0EFHIB (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2010 03:08:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:07:32 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: David Rientjes Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu , Suresh Siddha Subject: Re: [patch] x86: fix fake apicid to node mapping for numa emulation Message-ID: <20100506070732.GA32002@elte.hu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * David Rientjes wrote: > apicids must be mapped to the lowest node ids to maintain generic kernel use > of functions such as cpu_to_node() that determine device affinity. > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes > --- > Third resend of the same patch. > > arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) There's no info in the changelog about what negative effects this bug had when it was found, on what hardware it occured, and what the general urgency of the patch is. Thanks, Ingo