Re: [linux41] regression with 'x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs code to generic infrastructure' on AMD i686

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [linux41] regression with 'x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs code to generic infrastructure' on AMD i686
Date	2015-09-17 09:20 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 07:52:47PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:54:55PM +0200, Philip Müller wrote:
> >> I can confirm your patch working. However, it might be good to use yours
> >> and Thomas' in combination to solve this properly.
> >
> > Please do not top-post.
> >
> > We could use Thomas' too although from looking at it,
> > detect_cache_attributes() allocates a per-CPU per_cpu_cacheinfo thing
> > for each CPU. By the time we hit cache_shared_cpu_map_remove() in
> > free_cache_attributes(), those per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu) things are still
> > allocated. We kfree them in the next step only.
> >
> > But I like the moving of the check from the CPU hotplug callback to
> > free_cache_attributes().
> >
> > So I'll merge the two patches and write up a proper commit message,
> > unless someone objects.
> >
> > I'll add your Tested-by too.
> 
> Did this actually happen?  I don't see either fix in Linus' tree yet,
> the merge window is closed, and the bug happens on 4.1 and 4.2 stable
> kernels..

Greg wanted to pick it up...

Greg, what's up?

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    Boris.

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Re: [linux41] regression with 'x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs  code to generic infrastructure' on AMD i686 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 2015-09-17 02:00 +0200
  Re: [linux41] regression with 'x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs  code to generic infrastructure' on AMD i686 Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> - 2015-09-17 07:40 +0200
  Re: [linux41] regression with 'x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs  code to generic infrastructure' on AMD i686 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-09-17 09:20 +0200
    Re: [linux41] regression with 'x86/cacheinfo: Move cacheinfo sysfs  code to generic infrastructure' on AMD i686 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-09-17 15:00 +0200

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