Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:14:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport |
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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
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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