Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:57:55 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -stable] x86,preempt: Fix preemption for i386 |
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:19:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:36:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm not entirely clear on how acceptable it is to propose a different > > > > patch for -stable than what we have upstream. > > > > > > It's not all that common, but it certainly happens. > > > > > > It's fine, as long as it mentions the commits that fix it upstream. > > > And as long as it's well tested, of course. > > > > I agree, I can take this as long as you say it's correct and tested... > > As far as I understand the issue the patch is indeed correct and I have > 3 independent people who confirm their previously reported issues are > now cured (as testified by the Tested-by tags). > > There has also been confirmation that upstream does no longer suffer the > problem.
Thanks for that, I'll queue it up in a bit.
greg k-h
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