Re: [PATCH v5 00/30] ARM Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)

Dave Martin
2017-11-29T15:37:29Z

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:21:40PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:04:12PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >
> > Dave Martin <Dave.Martin-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org> writes:
> >
> > > This series implements Linux kernel support for the ARM Scalable Vector
> > > Extension (SVE). [1] It supersedes the previous v3: see [3] for link
> > > and full cover letter.
> > >
> > > This is a minor update to v4, but does contain a couple of important
> > > fixes.
> > <snip>
> >
> > I seem to have run into a regression with normal non-SVE sigcontexts
> > while trying to run consecutive RISU runs in the Foundation Model. I'm
> > failing to get repeatable results playing back a previous --master run.
> > It works OK with the default Debian kernel.
> >
> > What is the current status of the tree? I'd like to try an narrow it
> > down but I seem to recall it was now in a next tree somewhere?
>
> This is in mainline now, so please give a 4.15-rc1 build a spin. If there's
> a user-visible regression then we need to get to the bottom of it ASAP.
>
> Will

The other significant change was in v4.13, where the signal frame
parser rework landed.

What upstream version is your known-good Debian kernel based on?

Cheers
---Dave