Re: Erratum 383 fix for 32 bit x86 kernels

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Fri Sep 24 2010 - 07:58:41 EST


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:52:40AM -0400, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> here is a patch which I want to ask you to include into the current
> -stable kernels. This patch fixes the occurence of AMD Erratum 383 on
> 32 bit x86 kernels when using CPU hotplug. This patch is a combined
> patch created by cherry-picking (and fixing a small compile error)
> upstream commits:
>
> fd89a137924e0710078c3ae855e7cec1c43cb845
> b7d460897739e02f186425b7276e3fdb1595cea7
>
> The second commit fixes a problem in the first one. The patch I attach
> here is against 2.6.32.22 but should also apply against 2.6.35 (At least
> cherry-picking from 2.6.36-rc gave no conflicts).
> Please consider to include this patch into the -stable kernel series.

Ups, I attached the original patch, not the backported one, sorry. Here
is the right one for -stable.