Re: [GIT PULL, v2] x86/cpu changes for v2.6.35

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 02:34:38 EST



* Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:54:26AM +0200
>
> Hi Ingo,
>
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
>
> [..]
>
> > x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
>
> [..]
>
> > powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
>
> those three are already in Linus' tree since they were
> urgent fixes and had to be sent ASAP. [...]

Yeah, hpa mentioned it last week in his pull request that
those fixes were picked out of the stream of pending
development commits.

> [...] Now I don't know whether git will skip them when
> merging or will cause unneeded merge conflicts (a small
> superficial test I did here caused merge conflicts) ...
> anyways, just a heads-up.

In this particular case there will be a conflict in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c when Linus pulls,
and the correct resolution is to pick the version from
x86/cpu.

Thanks for mentioning this!

Ingo
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