Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] EVA fixes

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:54:48PM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:

> These four patches fix unaligned accesses when EVA is enabled. The fixes
> CC stable as well, because they need to be applied all the way back to
> the 3.15 kernels where EVA was originally introduced.
> 
> Markos Chandras (4):
>   MIPS: asm: asm-eva: Introduce kernel load/store variants
>   MIPS: unaligned: Prevent EVA instructions on kernel unaligned accesses
>   MIPS: unaligned: Surround load/store macros in do {} while statements
>   MIPS: unaligned: Fix regular load/store instruction emulation for EVA
> 
>  arch/mips/include/asm/asm-eva.h | 137 ++++++++++------
>  arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c    | 340 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  2 files changed, 324 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)

Applying these patches I found that 2/4 doesn't apply to v3.19- because
it relies on other patches that only exist on 4.0+.  Markos agreed to sort
out the issue and post a new patchset.  I've applied the patches for
mainline but will drop them for my -stable branches.

  Ralf