Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport

H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-24T00:48:01Z

On 02/23/2012 03:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:18:03PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 02/23/2012 03:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>> And a "clean" 3.2.7 doesn't have that problem?
>>>
>>> Does the same thing happen in Linus's tree at the moment?
>>>
>>
>> Clean 3.2.7 I don't think has that problem, although of course when I
>> run the stress test it fails on other ways so it's hard to 100% rule out.
>>
>> Linus' tree doesn't have that problems.
>
> Ugh.
>
> So, we need more testers, so let me release a -rc kernel with just these
> changes in it, to get a wider testing range, and make an easy "this
> kernel worked, but this one didn't" for people to work with.
>
> I don't suppose that 'git bisect' would work for this, as it's really a
> "all or nothing" type thing with this series from what I can tell,
> right?
>

So far, disabling AES-NI works as expected, so I definitely don't think
it's a driver issue.

-hpa