Re: [PATCH -next] x86/apic: Force logial APIC ID in range from 0 to 8

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Apr 26 2021 - 07:09:38 EST


On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 02:09:59AM +0000, xuyihang wrote:
> Hi, I realize this problem only occur on kernel 3.10, and not on 4.18. Which leads me to this patch
> (https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/855026/). flat_init_apic_ldr should not be called in this case.
>

This is not the first time people from Huawei are sending patches for
some old kernel to the *upstream* kernel mailing list.

You do know that we take patches only for the *upstream* kernel old
kernels are someone else's problem, right?

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