Re: [PATCH] Retry {save,restore}_fp_context if failed in atomic context.

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:30:46 +0100, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> > And this is for 2.6.20-stable.
> 
> Both applied, also to older -stable branches except 2.6.16.  In case of
> 2.6.16 it would have been more time consuming than justifyable and since
> the bug this patch fixes is comparable to what we had before starting the
> whole surgery I have no problem to leave 2.6.16 as it is.  Anybody still
> using 2.6.16 should upgrade anyway ...

I agree this patch is not critical for older kernel.  But
2.6.16-stable already applied the broken "Allow CpU exception in
kernel partially" patch.  This should be reverted.  Just revert the
commit a0d2a152ec0917b0c1b0c84a00fd95d17090a5f8 should be enough.

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Atsushi Nemoto