Re: [PATCH] x86/powernow: fix cpus_allowed brokage when acpi=off

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 11:05:40 EST


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:17:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Yinghai, as far as I can tell your other fixes are independent (and
> > were a problem before this commit, yes?). Can you re-submit them on top
> > of this patch (which is for Ingo, but against latest Linus).
> >
> > Subject: cpumask: fix powernow-k8: partial revert of 2fdf66b491ac706657946442789ec644cc317e1a
> >
> > Impact: fix powernow-k8 when acpi=off (or other error).
> >
> > There was a spurious change introduced into powernow-k8 in this patch:
> > the cause if that we try to "restore" the cpus_allowed we never saved.
> >
> > See lkml "[PATCH] x86/powernow: fix cpus_allowed brokage when
> > acpi=off" from Yinghai for the bug report.
> >
> > Cc: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks guys!
>
> Dave, is it fine if we send the fix to Linus via this route - or would you
> like to do it yourself?

I thought this was only in your tree, so I was letting you do the work anyway :-)

I'm fine with it, as long as it goes in soon.

Dave

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