Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757259Ab2BWXy6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:54:58 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:56100 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756086Ab2BWXy5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:54:57 -0500 Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gregkh@linuxfoundation.org designates 10.68.212.3 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:54:50 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds , stable@vger.kernel.org, Raphael Prevost , Suresh Siddha , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport Message-ID: <20120223235450.GA22345@kroah.com> References: <20120222213253.GA25150@kroah.com> <20120223200905.GA5475@kroah.com> <4F46A1C4.90506@zytor.com> <20120223204832.GA30322@kroah.com> <4F46A6EC.8050804@zytor.com> <20120223211016.GA16275@kroah.com> <4F46C63C.4040602@zytor.com> <20120223231605.GA15329@kroah.com> <4F46C92B.4090508@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F46C92B.4090508@zytor.com> 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: 1060 Lines: 31 On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:18:03PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/23/2012 03:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > And a "clean" 3.2.7 doesn't have that problem? > > > > Does the same thing happen in Linus's tree at the moment? > > > > Clean 3.2.7 I don't think has that problem, although of course when I > run the stress test it fails on other ways so it's hard to 100% rule out. > > Linus' tree doesn't have that problems. Ugh. So, we need more testers, so let me release a -rc kernel with just these changes in it, to get a wider testing range, and make an easy "this kernel worked, but this one didn't" for people to work with. I don't suppose that 'git bisect' would work for this, as it's really a "all or nothing" type thing with this series from what I can tell, right? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/