From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org [140.211.169.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3tStDz1NHWzDvtD for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 06:01:23 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:01:31 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Geoff Levand Cc: Michael Ellerman , stable@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: powerpc/ps3: Fix system hang with GCC 5 builds Message-ID: <20161129190131.GA14409@kroah.com> References: <0778d754-b261-9d69-d309-a12970ce1cfa@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <0778d754-b261-9d69-d309-a12970ce1cfa@infradead.org> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:47:32AM -0800, Geoff Levand wrote: > GCC 5 generates different code for this bootwrapper null check > that causes the PS3 to hang very early in its bootup. This > check is of limited value, so just get rid of it. > > Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand > --- > arch/powerpc/boot/ps3-head.S | 5 ----- > arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c | 8 +------- > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) 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.