Re: [PATCH 4.9 033/120] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix hardcoded socket 0 assumption in the Haswell init code

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 07:30:20 EST




On 01/19/2017 06:49 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 05:32:46AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/18/2017 05:25 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> * Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 4.9 is broken and requires additional patches beyond this patch. Applying this
>>>> patch to 4.9 stable without those additional fixes will result in kernel panics
>>>> on some Haswell systems that boot on random cores.
>>>
>>> Could you list the patches that are required? It would be nice to backport all
>>> required fixes to v4.9.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I'm going to do that once I get the system back. I have a feeling that
>> just the two additional patches are required but I want to make sure before I
>> post anything.
>
> So what do I do here? Drop this single patch? Add others now? Ignore
> it and leave it as-is?

Drop this patch.

P.

>
> still confused,
>
> greg k-h
>