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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:15:43 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] ppc64le: Enable emulation support for simple Load/Store
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:01:55PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> emulate_step() uses a number of underlying kernel functions that were
> initially not enabled for LE. This has been rectified since. So, fix
> emulate_step() for LE for the corresponding instructions.
> 
> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Note: This patch only enables LOAD, STORE, LARX and STCX instructions.
>       I'll send a subsequent patch for other types like LOAD_FP,
>       LOAD_VMX etc.
> 
>  arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c | 8 --------
>  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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