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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 08:50:40 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 07:05:45AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
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> On 01/19/2017 06:49 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 05:32:46AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
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> >> On 01/18/2017 05:25 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> >>> * 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?
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> Drop this patch.

Ok, now dropped!

greg k-h