On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:47:17 -0400 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 07:48:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Which means that all of the arch_spin_unlock (which are inlined) and such > will now be patched over. > > But perhaps they are not suppose to be enabled in the .smp_prepare_boot_cpu > function chain? But that seems the best place - as you need to enable > this before the spinlocks are used on SMP. > > And the IPs are all NOPs. > Note, there was a major conflict with the merge. I need to examine if it was done correctly. I'm not saying that the bug was caused by the conflict, it could be because of the change the patch made. Let me look at the conflict first to verify that it still does what was intended, then if that looks fine, I'll look into this bug too. Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
