From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752174Ab0JEQan (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:30:43 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:22960 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751499Ab0JEQal (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:30:41 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,284,1283756400"; d="scan'208";a="560911964" Message-ID: <4CAB52AD.60502@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:30:37 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , hpa@zytor.com, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ryan@innosecc.com, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [tip:x86/cpu] x86, cpu: Fix X86_FEATURE_NOPL References: <20101004073127.GA20305@liondog.tnic> <20101005094712.GA5626@a1.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20101005094712.GA5626@a1.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/5/2010 2:47 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > tag it for -stable too? > What is the flaw that justifies it for stable, or even .36? It seems relatively harmless, with at most a very minor performance issue, unless I'm missing something? -hpa