Re: [PATCH 00/33] x86 FPU fixes and cleanups for v4.14

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Sep 23 2017 - 19:27:26 EST



* Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 23/09/17 15:02, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> So I'd like to push these changes to Linus tomorrow-ish as an RFC pull
> >> request in 1-2 days, because there's now 4 fixes depending on these
> >> changes, and because the result will be more maintainable for the
> >> LTS v4.14 kernel.
> >>
> >> The biggest changes from the earlier iterations is the fixes from
> >> Eric Biggers for information leaks, plus more cleanups. I have also
> >> removed the change that Peter Zijlstra and others felt uneasy about,
> >> the ::last_cpu -> ::fpregs_cached change to the state machine. This
> >> should make the changes uncontroversial.
> >>
> >> Due to taking out that patch I had to rebase the changes, most of which
> >> have accrued months of testing in linux-next. So I'm pretty confident
> >> about the overall stability of it. (Famous last words.)
> >
> > I forgot to mention that these changes are also available in tip:master
> > (and tip:WIP.x86/fpu), at:
> >
> > git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git master
>
> Really? Did you hijack the Xen tree? :-)

Lol, copy & paste error ;-) Should be:

git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git master

Thanks,

Ingo