On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > 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? Can do, might send a few pitchforks I collect your way though ;-) While I have your attention (and now that -rc1 is out), can you please pick up my two console_lock patches into your tty tree for 3.8? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
