Re: [PATCH] fix x86 cpuid keys used in alternative_smp()

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:03:08 +0200
"Jan Beulich" <[email protected]> wrote:

> By hard-coding the cpuid keys for alternative_smp() rather than using
> the symbolic constant it turned out that incorrect values were used on
> both i386 (0x68 instead of 0x69) and x86-64 (0x66 instead of 0x68).

Thanks. Applied.

I wonder if that was the reason why the .fill misassembly the 
2.16.91.0.5 (10.1) binutils commits (see recent discuss report from
Rafael) didn't cause crashes on UP machines.  Do you have
an opinion on that?

-Andi
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