From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alex.shi@linaro.org (Alex Shi) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:10:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 46/52] arm: Add BTB invalidation on switch_mm for Cortex-A9, A12 and A17 In-Reply-To: <20180226104505.GB8736@arm.com> References: <1519633227-29832-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linaro.org> <1519633227-29832-47-git-send-email-alex.shi@linaro.org> <20180226100518.GA11378@kroah.com> <3fa9ebcb-fe94-bbd6-49a7-e90c91c3905e@linaro.org> <20180226104505.GB8736@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 02/26/2018 06:45 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 06:40:42PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: >> >> >> On 02/26/2018 06:05 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 04:20:20PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: >>>> From: Marc Zyngier >>>> >>>> ** Not yet queued for inclusion in mainline ** >>> >>> As Marc said, this should have been a HUGE clue that we can't take this >>> patch. Please go re-read >>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html >>> >> >> Thanks for comments, Greg! >> >> I read the rules for several times, and thought it maybe a exception for >> this bug fix. But since MarcZ said so. We can wait. :) > > The reason I added the disclaimer to the commit message was precisely to > avoid these things accidentally going into stable. If stable diverges > significantly from mainline, it's just going to make backports of other > patches more difficult. So no, we shouldn't be considering an exception > for this. > Hi Will, Got it. Thanks for explanations! I remove all non upstream patches and put it on git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git v4.9-spectre-upstream-only If other patches passed review. it could be got as whole branch from there. Thanks Alex