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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Jong-Sung Kim <neidhard.kim@lge.com>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chanho Min <chanho0207@gmail.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Shreshtha Kumar Sahu <shreshthakumar.sahu@stericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: PL011: move interrupt clearing
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:19:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120403161923.GB4894@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP=VYLrbZNxYWT-TQt6SzXc3OpYnFVgiQqW-2pM+9V=z4LREow@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:36:23AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 02:49:37PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> >> > Commit 360f748b204275229f8398cb2f9f53955db1503b
> >> > "serial: PL011: clear pending interrupts"
> >> > attempts to clear interrupts by writing to a
> >> > yet-unassigned memory address. This fixes the issue.
> >> >
> >> > The breaking patch is marked for stable so should be
> >> > carried along with the other patch.
> >> >
> >> > Cc: Shreshtha Kumar Sahu <shreshthakumar.sahu@stericsson.com>
> >> > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> >> > Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >> > Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> >>
> >> Ugh; the original patch is obviously broken.  How did it get applied
> >> without testing?
> >>
> >> Greg, can you get this out to Linus ASAP please?  I have one comment
> >> below, but I don't think it should block merging this patch.
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> >
> > Thanks, I'll get it to him after 3.4-rc1 is out, in a few days, along
> > with other tty fixes being queued up.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Just wanted to check this didn't fall through the cracks, as I don't
> see it in your tty-next or tty-linus branches.
> 
> The original bad commit causes Silent Boot Death on qemu ARM
> versatile, which is kind of nasty.  It pretty much forces a bisection,
> which I did, which then led me here.

It's still in my "to-apply" queue, don't worry, it's not lost.

greg k-h
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      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-03 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-21 19:15 [PATCH] serial: PL011: move interrupt clearing Linus Walleij
2012-03-22  1:04 ` viresh kumar
2012-03-22  8:00   ` Linus Walleij
2012-03-23  3:39     ` viresh kumar
2012-03-23  8:17       ` Linus Walleij
2012-03-29 20:49 ` Grant Likely
2012-03-29 21:22   ` Linus Walleij
2012-03-29 21:33   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-03 15:36     ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-03 16:19       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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