Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756712Ab2BWTuP (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:50:15 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:44781 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756267Ab2BWTuN (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:50:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:50:07 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: raphael@buro.asia, "H. Peter Anvin" , stable@vger.kernel.org, Suresh Siddha , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport Message-ID: <20120223195007.GA5160@kroah.com> References: <4F4584EB.9060605@zytor.com> <20120223003706.GA3246@kroah.com> <6e9d38ffcb1a66f62a335450d4722809@buro.asia> <20120223193620.GA16477@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 29 On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:41:50AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > > > The insane safe_address games go away in the cleanup patch, so it > really shouldn't be much of an issue. > > In the end, save_address should just be > > #define safe_address (tsk->thread.has_fpu) > > (and in fact the whole #define got removed entirely in mainline in > commit 80ab6f1e8c98, which might be fodder for -stable too) That's not where the merge caused problems, it was in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c and arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c, either I'm missing a patch that needs to be added to the series, or something else is odd, let me dig... greg k-h > > Linus -- 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/