From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:28:50 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Greg KH Cc: Suresh Siddha , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Don't apply 9f022e54b8ea82d1ecdf3bd78d9ab9f44d6b0655 to stable please. Message-ID: <20120403132850.GE12464@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <20120402224701.GA6961@phenom.dumpdata.com> <20120402232750.GB17821@kroah.com> <1333410186.1270.92.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com> <20120402234904.GA18316@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120402234904.GA18316@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > Author: Suresh Siddha > > Date: Mon Mar 12 11:36:33 2012 -0700 > > > > x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries > > > > With out this commit, if the bios lists bogus io-apic's, then we will > > see some error messages ("Unable to reset IRR for apic")during linux > > boot which are benign. But as this patch breaks Xen, I am ok if these > > don't get applied to 'stable'. Also I think it is Ingo who added the > > 'stable' tag. Ingo, are you ok with this? > > What stable trees did this already go into in the releases today? I see it in v3.2.x as: 273fb19 x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries And in 3.0.x: c2ec63e x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries But I don't see it in 3.1.x tree? > > You need to tell me what I need to revert here, SPECIFICALLY, and in > what tree, if needed, otherwise I have no idea what is going on, sorry, > I can't read minds.