Re: [GIT PULL] please pull one bug fix for v4.4

[Jeff Merkey]

On 1/11/16, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> The merge window is open, so I started looking at this that I had
>> ignored as being too late last time..
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Jeff Merkey <linux.mdb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Patch address with email included:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/jeffmerkey/linux/commit/e1d3c76814c839a835286843f0bca33b0c5d0dd8.patch
>>
>> So at a minimum, I'd like a sign-off for the patch. But also, can you
>> describe how to actually trigger the problem? Is this actually
>> triggerable without an ICE?
>
> This patch has been discussed and the version above has issues. It's still
> not
> decided how we are going to deal with that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
>

Thank you for the prompt reply.  It's a complex issue in a heavily
traversed and stable code path.  That being said, the fix is trivial
and non-intrusive.

Jeff