On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:11:22AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > Hi Greg&stable-team, > > The below patch papers over a graphics corruption issue in 3.5/3.6. The > regression happened due to pwrite tunings in 3.5, which made cpu relocations > much more likely. > > The issue seems to have disappeared in 3.7-rc1, but it takes a few days to test > a patch, so we haven't figured out what exactly fixed things. Now users are > taking out their pitchforks already, so instead of wasting more days (maybe > weeks?) to fully understand the bug before backporting the fix, we've opted for > the below disable patch, which should have minimal impact (at most it undoes the > tuning improvements in 3.5). > > Patch is tested by reporters & acked by all relevant ppl, please apply to > 3.5/3.6 series kernels. No, I'd really like to wait until you figure out what is happening in 3.7-rc1 right now before applying the patch. We have the rule, "it must be in Linus's tree first" for a very good reason :) So, I'll hold onto this until you say what's up with 3.7-rc1, ok? thanks, greg k-h
