Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/141] 4.9.137-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-11-12T13:33:03Z

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:38:44AM -0200, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> On 11/11/18 8:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.137 release.
> > There are 141 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Tue Nov 13 22:15:38 UTC 2018.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.137-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
> > -------------
> > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> >
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Linux 4.9.137-rc1
> >
> ...
> > Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> > cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare
>
> Greg, maybe...
>
> commit ef8d3a128c1f1de7ffdedb2f14e846e10fd3fec3
> Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon Oct 8 12:06:19 2018
>
> cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare
>
> [ Upstream commit f69ffc5d3db8f1f03fd6d1df5930f9a1fbd787b6 ]
>
> should be dropped from v4.9 (and v4.4) since it causes:
>
> $ make V=1 -C tools/power/cpupower all
>
> gcc -fPIC -DVERSION=\"4.9.136.142.g36c7703\" -DPACKAGE=\"cpupower\"
> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -pipe -DNLS
> -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshadow -O1 -g -DDEBUG -I./lib -I ./utils -o
> utils/helpers/amd.o -c utils/helpers/amd.c
> utils/helpers/amd.c: In function ‘decode_pstates’:
> utils/helpers/amd.c:106:39: error: ‘union msr_pstate’ has no member named
> ‘fam17h_bits’
> if ((cpu_family == 0x17) && (!pstate.fam17h_bits.en))
>
> Due to nonexistent CPU (flag) support.
>
> Replied to Sasha on specific commits for both, v4.4 and v4.9.

Now dropped from both queues.

thanks,

greg k-h