Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] riscv: Get rid of CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE in kernel physical" failed to apply to 5.13-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:26:31AM +0200, Alex Ghiti wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Le 9/08/2021 à 12:42, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org a écrit :
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 5.13-stable tree.
> 
> I don't know when stable was cc on this patch, this fixes something
> introduced in 5.14-rc1, so this is not normal it can't be applied.
> 
> Sorry for the noise,
> 
> Alex
> 
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> > 
> >  From 6d7f91d914bc90a15ebc426440c26081337ceaa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:59:35 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] riscv: Get rid of CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE in kernel physical
> >   address conversion
> > 
> > The usage of CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE for all kernel types was a mistake:
> > this value is implementation-specific and this breaks the genericity of
> > the RISC-V kernel.
> > 
> > Fix this by introducing a new variable phys_ram_base that holds this
> > value at runtime and use it in the kernel physical address conversion
> > macro. Since this value is used only for XIP kernels, evaluate it only if
> > CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL is set which in addition optimizes this macro for
> > standard kernels at compile-time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> > Tested-by: Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@esmil.dk>
> > Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
> > Fixes: 44c922572952 ("RISC-V: enable XIP")

But this commit id is in 5.13, is that incorrect?

Just verifying,

greg k-h