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

H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23T00:14:50Z

On 02/22/2012 03:31 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I probably missed something when I skipped the patches that
>> weren't appropriate for backporting (like the whole FPU state preload
>> removal and rewriting).
>
> Ahh. Yes, I see what happened.
>
> The FPU preloading patches cleaned up __switch_to() to use the
> appropriate helpers to set TS_USEDFPU, but since I skipped them
> (because I felt they weren't appropriate for -stable), those cleanups
> got missed. So then the __math_state_restore()
>
> Only the last patch needs fixing, methinks. Updated version attached.
>
> Linus

Immediate failure, still.

-hpa

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