From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:32:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33064 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27013883AbaKSBcHkoOB4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:32:07 +0100 Received: from localhost (c-24-22-230-10.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [24.22.230.10]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C386800; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:32:00 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , Markos Chandras , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Yoichi Yuasa , Aaro Koskinen Subject: Re: incomplete mips patch made 3.10.55, remains broken in 3.10.58 Message-ID: <20141119013200.GF22731@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 44279 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 03:57:33AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Greg, > > Commit ff522058bd717506b2fa066fa564657f2b86477e was merged into 3.10.55 > stable as commit 4f91cb537d2f7fa700a2b6d86a2cc77d20ee2616. > > Without the complement, commit 5596b0b245fb9d2cefb5023b11061050351c1398, > included below, cache invalidation functions modified by the former > patch may return between preempt_disable() and preempt_enable(), causing > such machines as yeeloongs to go down in flames early in the boot. > > The complement patch had already made v3.12-rc4, and it's quite > obviously needed and correct. I've also tested that it fixes the > regression on the yeeloong. > > So, would you please merge it into the 3.10 stable series, at your > earlier convenience, so as to fix this regression? Applied, now, thanks. greg k-h