From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:51:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:47980 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27006843AbaHZJv36yMnj (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:51:29 +0200 Received: from KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (unknown [192.168.5.35]) by Websense Email Security Gateway with ESMTPS id 17CDFD42612C9; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:51:21 +0100 (IST) Received: from KLMAIL02.kl.imgtec.org (10.40.60.222) by KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (192.168.5.35) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:51:23 +0100 Received: from LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org (192.168.152.62) by klmail02.kl.imgtec.org (10.40.60.222) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:51:22 +0100 Received: from [192.168.154.101] (192.168.154.101) by LEMAIL01.le.imgtec.org (192.168.152.62) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:51:22 +0100 Message-ID: <53FC589A.6070700@imgtec.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:51:22 +0100 From: James Hogan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markos Chandras , Aaro Koskinen , Ralf Baechle CC: Stephen Rothwell , linux-mips , Aurelien Jarno , "Markos (GMail)" , Paul , "Rob Kendrick" , Alex Smith , Huacai Chen Subject: Re: Please add my temporary MIPS fixes branch to linux-next References: <53D9169D.3020705@imgtec.com> <53E8A470.1050603@imgtec.com> <20140823202447.GB6818@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> <53FC5729.7060306@imgtec.com> In-Reply-To: <53FC5729.7060306@imgtec.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.154.101] 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: 42247 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: james.hogan@imgtec.com 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 26/08/14 10:45, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 08/23/2014 09:24 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:09:36PM +0100, James Hogan wrote: >>> On 30/07/14 17:00, James Hogan wrote: >>>> Hi Stephen & MIPS people >>>> >>>> v3.16 is fast approaching and there are quite a few important MIPS >>>> patches pending. Since Ralf appears to be unavailable at the moment I've >>>> reviewed and applied some of those patches which are least controversial >>>> to a fixes branch with the intention of sending a pull request to Ralf & >>>> Linus so that one of them can hopefully merge it before the release. >>> >>> I sent you a pull request for these fixes prior to v3.16 but >>> unfortunately they still missed the release, and only two of the patches >>> were applied in the main v3.17 MIPS merge. >>> >>> What are you intentions for the remaining fixes from Markos & Aaro? >> >> Ralf, any comments? I think at least this fix is imporant, >> because currently users can hang OCTEON systems simply by lauching >> multiple readers of the proc file: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/mips.git/commit/?id=08a9c3c9afcf6e8975fc1c9a97e871e6a039c25a >> >> A. >> > Hi, > > I plan to send GregKH another set of fixes to backport to 3.16, and > since this patch is now in mainline[1], I will include this one as well. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d This particular fix is already marked for stable. The ones I applied that aren't marked for stable (but are now needed in linux-3.16.y) are: f85b71ceabb9 MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header ca4d24f7954f MIPS: Malta: EVA: Rename 'eva_entry' to 'platform_eva_init' 6521d9a436a6 MIPS: CPS: Initialize EVA before bringing up VPEs from secondary cores Cheers James