[Ack] Oneiric SRU: x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h

[Leann Ogasawara]

On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 11:41 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> I've tested this patch series on the targeted CPU as well as regression 
> testing on non-AMD CPUs. Without intricate and in-depth instrumentation 
> I cannot tell if the patch has a positive impact, but I can at least be 
> reasonably sure its not deleterious. The AMD guys are pretty hot for 
> this patch set. Its been well discussed and merged into tip awaiting the 
> 3.2 merge window.

Given testing hasn't produced negative impacts and this is slated to
land upstream for the v3.2.

Acked-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>

> The following changes since commit c7d90650a63f4cca4af4df1bd1f97d642453f55f:
>    Leann Ogasawara (1):
>          UBUNTU: Start new release
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-oneiric bdozer
> 
> Borislav Petkov (4):
>        x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
>        x86: Add a BSP cpu_dev helper
>        x86, amd: Move BSP code to cpu_dev helper
>        x86-32, amd: Move va_align definition to unbreak 32-bit build
> 
>   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |   13 ++++++
>   arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h          |   31 ++++++++++++++
>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c           |   46 +++++++++++++--------
>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c        |    3 +
>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h           |    1 +
>   arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c        |   77 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   arch/x86/mm/mmap.c                  |   20 ++-------
>   arch/x86/vdso/vma.c                 |    9 ++++
>   8 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)