Hi, On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:24:20PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:41 AM, tip-bot for Daniel Kiper > <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Commit-ID: ?05e407603e527f9d808dd3866d3a17c2ce4dfcc5 > > Gitweb: ? ? http://git.kernel.org/tip/05e407603e527f9d808dd3866d3a17c2ce4dfcc5 > > Author: ? ? Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:46:16 +0200 > > Committer: ?Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > CommitDate: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:18:28 +0200 > > > > x86, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash > > > > Fix a boot crash when apic=debug is used and the APIC is > > not properly initialized. > > > > This issue appears during Xen Dom0 kernel boot but the > > fix is generic and the crash could occur on real hardware > > as well. > > Do you have any report on real hardware? > that could not happen on real hardware. Till now no, however I think it is good idea to apply this patch now. It is not worth to wait for another null pointer dereference. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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