Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] x86, cacheinfo, amd: L3 Cache Index Disable fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jan 27 2010 - 07:18:00 EST



* Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:32:23PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > Well, if there's a crasher in there, then a minimal fix to address just that
> > > is preferred for .33 - and that can be tagged for -stable immediately.
> >
> > As I said earlier, I don't believe we have machines in the wild to
> > practically support the feature yet so we should be OK without a fix.
> > Let me verify that next week and get back to you with a minimal fix in
> > case we have any affected configurations.
>
> I could verify that we don't need a minimal fix for .33 for the reason above
> so the 5 fixes for .34 merge window should suffice completely.

Great - thanks for confirming that.

Ingo
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