Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Clear irqstack thread_info

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 18 2011 - 17:09:35 EST



* Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:03 +0000, tip-bot for Brian Gerst wrote:
> > Commit-ID: 7b698ea377e10b074ceef0d79218e6622d618421
> > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7b698ea377e10b074ceef0d79218e6622d618421
> > Author: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:32:10 -0500
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:58:37 +0100
> >
> > x86: Clear irqstack thread_info
> >
> > Mathias Merz reported that v2.6.37 failed to boot on his
> > system.
> >
> > Make sure that the thread_info part of the irqstack is
> > initialized to zeroes.
> >
> > Reported-and-Tested-by: Matthias Merz <linux@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimyKXfJ1x8tgwrr1hYnNLrPfgE1NTe4z7L6tUDm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
> This needs to be tagged for -stable as well.

Indeed, i meant to do that but forgot. I've forwarded it to the -stable guys now.

Thanks,

Ingo
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