From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:54:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cca0990-1b78-40e7-a71d-f550b4f504aa@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100823081212.GA13297@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl>
It's already applied.
"Daniel Kiper" <dkiper@net-space.pl> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:24:20PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:41 AM, tip-bot for Daniel Kiper
>> <dkiper@net-space.pl> wrote:
>> > Commit-ID: ?05e407603e527f9d808dd3866d3a17c2ce4dfcc5
>> > Gitweb: ? ? http://git.kernel.org/tip/05e407603e527f9d808dd3866d3a17c2ce4dfcc5
>> > Author: ? ? Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
>> > AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:46:16 +0200
>> > Committer: ?Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>> > CommitDate: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:18:28 +0200
>> >
>> > x86, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash
>> >
>> > Fix a boot crash when apic=debug is used and the APIC is
>> > not properly initialized.
>> >
>> > This issue appears during Xen Dom0 kernel boot but the
>> > fix is generic and the crash could occur on real hardware
>> > as well.
>>
>> Do you have any report on real hardware?
>> that could not happen on real hardware.
>
>Till now no, however I think it is good idea
>to apply this patch now. It is not worth to wait
>for another null pointer dereference.
>
>Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-23 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 22:46 [PATCH] arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c: Fix for crash when apic=debug is used Daniel Kiper
2010-08-20 12:41 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash tip-bot for Daniel Kiper
2010-08-20 19:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-23 8:12 ` Daniel Kiper
2010-08-23 14:54 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-08-23 17:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-24 21:39 ` Daniel Kiper
2010-08-24 21:47 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-25 13:51 ` Daniel Kiper
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