Re: [stable] [113/197] x86, cacheinfo: Calculate L3 indices

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/12/2010 04:19 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> So if K8_NB has failed initializing for some reason, we never go near
>> the pci devs and the node_to_k8_nb_misc() calls since we effectively
>> disable the L3 functionality.
>>
>> Thus the NULL pointer checks you remove in the patch below are
>> superfluous, I agree, and I have already removed those in my tree along
>> with the other improvements/fixes I'm working on right now.
> 
> So, was there ever a patch applied that fixed the bug that Jiri found in
> the stable kernels with this original patch that I could apply?
> 

Sounds like this patch in -tip should be promoted to mainline/stable...
could the AMD people please confirm?

	-hpa

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