On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 10:15:23AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
[CCing the x86 folks, Greg, and the regressions list]
Hi, Thorsten here, the Linux kernel's regression tracker.
On 30.07.24 18:41, Thomas Lindroth wrote:
I upgraded from kernel 6.1.94 to 6.1.99 on one of my machines and noticed that the dmesg line "Incomplete global flushes, disabling PCID" had disappeared from the log.
Thomas, thx for the report. FWIW, mainline developers like the x86 folks or Tony are free to focus on mainline and leave stable/longterm series to other people -- some nevertheless help out regularly or occasionally. So with a bit of luck this mail will make one of them care enough to provide a 6.1 version of what you afaics called the "existing fix" in mainline (2eda374e883ad2 ("x86/mm: Switch to new Intel CPU model defines") [v6.10-rc1]) that seems to be missing in 6.1.y. But if not I suspect it might be up to you to prepare and submit a 6.1.y variant of that fix, as you seem to care and are able to test the patch.
Needs to go to 6.6.y first, right? But even then, it does not apply to 6.1.y cleanly, so someone needs to send a backported (and tested) series to us at stable@vger.kernel.org and we will be glad to queue them up then.
thanks,
greg k-h