Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 19:45:07 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       arturzaprzala@ownmail.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in arch/i386/power/cpu.c
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On Po 22-05-06 10:15:35, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Fix a typo which caused us to corrupt CR2 (not likely a problem) and 
> fail to restore CR0 (potentially a problem on APM systems, since TS/EM 
> bits might be lost) after suspend.

> Fix a typo in suspend code noticed by Artur Zaprzala.  I'm unsure if this
> actually causes a bug in practice, since the ACPI wakeup code also restores
> CR0, and the APM code returns to protected mode, but the fix is obviously much
> better.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

I believe it is already queued in -mm tree. If you actually know know
a system it breaks (or if it breaks vmware), we have very good reason
to push it now.
                                                                Pavel
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