Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] x86, cacheinfo, amd: L3 Cache Index Disable fixes

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 01/22/2010 09:40 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>>
>>> Those patches are also good -stable candidates.
>>
>> Hmmm... I'm not sure I see a strong justification for a late -rc push
>> into Linus/stable push for for these... I think you would have to
>> explicitly make the case if you want them to be considered as such.
> 
> Well, on the one hand, they fix real bugs in the L3 cache index disable
> code and since they're bugfixes, they are eligible late -rc candidates.
> 

Bugfixes are *early* -rc candidates.  Regression fixes are *late* -rc
candidates, at least that seems to be the policy Linus currently
implements.  -stable seems to use slightly less strict criteria (the
whole point is that -final needs to be a stabilization point, backported
fixes/drivers can then come onto a stable base) which is why you seem
some patches which are "straight to .1".

> On the other hand, however and more importantly, the machines which
> have that feature are not selling yet so postponing the patches for the
> next merge window is still ok. I'll backport them then to .32 for the
> distro kernels and .33 and I think we are going to be fine this way.
> 
> So queueing them for .34 is still fine with me, thanks.

OK.  You can check with -stable if they want to take the backport post-.33.

	-hpa

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