From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DDDC04EB8 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 20:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467D620881 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 20:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="GVBBqXX4" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 467D620881 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725818AbeLBULz (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2018 15:11:55 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54944 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725730AbeLBULy (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2018 15:11:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3D3A2082F; Sun, 2 Dec 2018 20:11:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1543781512; bh=L71Ae8si39BEk9VHIJN+fM8z+JLm31UdzZhupuli/q4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=GVBBqXX4+GQ6TbTFCUfYHP4VuCV04DXCkfZnCHeHT/jDJHYff0D2/8T913fSn+w5b g3K1pnc7CNP041+NlGSPlW+EAQnPa+6SlQVoBfKrRCF1KsheKE/uDvoYLcGG9yJtMA wQ3/ApO8UJZuXInNNOE7jsmFvOHHAojNWdu8g8fU= Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:11:50 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Sasha Levin Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Julien Thierry Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 14/83] ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init Message-ID: <20181202201150.GC3932@kroah.com> References: <20181129140138.002176596@linuxfoundation.org> <20181129140138.869602566@linuxfoundation.org> <20181129142817.GW30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20181130151554.GA29005@kroah.com> <20181130151843.GB29005@kroah.com> <20181202151732.GH221015@sasha-vm> <20181202161535.GA27166@kroah.com> <20181202162532.GK221015@sasha-vm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181202162532.GK221015@sasha-vm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.0 (2018-11-25) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:25:32AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 05:15:35PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 10:17:32AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:15:54PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:28:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > As I've already fed back to Sascha about this, this patch on its own > > > > > > does not fix anything, and is not a stable kernel candidate without > > > > > > a patch that makes use of it (iow, the spectre fixes.) It is a > > > > > > preparatory patch for mainline commit 383fb3ee8024. > > > > > > > > > > > > Every commit in: > > > > > > > > > > > > $ git rev-list v4.16..383fb3ee8024 > > > > > > > > > > > > are the ARM spectre fixes, which are being back-ported by David Long. > > > > > > > > > > > > Please do not cherry-pick commits from within this series for _any_ > > > > > > stable kernel, but please wait for David to send you the back-ported > > > > > > patches. > > > > > > > > > > Ugh, ok, that's a bunch here. > > > > > > > > Ok, not that bad, only 4: > > > > 383fb3ee8024 ("ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems") > > > > e209950fdd06 ("ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros") > > > > 945aceb1db88 ("ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call") > > > > 899a42f83667 ("ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init") > > > > > > > > I'll go drop them all from the trees now. Turns out for 4.14 one of > > > > these patches broke the build anyway. Sasha, how did that past your > > > > builder tests? > > > > > > Because it builds :) > > > > Really? It broke Guenter's builds... > > I might be missing something, but Guenter's reply to this -rc thread > (https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg272294.html) was: > > > For v3.18.127-83-gc3953c334bf6: > > > > Build results: > > total: 160 pass: 160 fail: 0 > > Qemu test results: > > total: 223 pass: 223 fail: 0 The breakage happened on the 4.14 tree with one of the patches above, which caused me to do a -rc2. thanks, greg k-h