Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756114Ab1DOO2b (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:28:31 -0400 Received: from 8bytes.org ([88.198.83.132]:50390 "EHLO 8bytes.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755089Ab1DOO2a (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:28:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:28:29 +0200 From: Joerg Roedel To: Andreas Herrmann Cc: Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai Lu , Ingo Molnar , Alex Deucher , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Thomas Gleixner , Tejun Heo , alexandre.f.demers@gmail.com Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3 Message-ID: <20110415142829.GL18463@8bytes.org> References: <20110413193459.GL19819@8bytes.org> <4DA60C30.4060606@kernel.org> <4DA6145D.9070703@kernel.org> <4DA655E7.3000904@zytor.com> <20110415131152.GJ18463@8bytes.org> <20110415140445.GA4883@alberich.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110415140445.GA4883@alberich.amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 807 Lines: 19 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 04:04:45PM +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > What about tagging this patch for stable/longterm releases? > > Potentially there are other cases where certain combinations of > hardware(GPUs)/drivers/whatsoever might trigger a GartTlbWlkErr. If > the BIOS doesn't follow the BKDG recommendation to mask these errors, > the system will hang/reboot. Thus I think having this quirk in .32 and > .38 (at least) is useful. Right, thats certainly a good idea. The problem is not specific to GPUs, any other device can trigger this too. Joerg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/