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From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>,
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	"open list:GENERIC ARCHITECTURE TOPOLOGY" 
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 6.3 v2] arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 22:39:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230530-basically-wildly-84415a94171d@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230530201955.848176-1-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>

Yo Florian,

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
> 
> commit 3522340199cc060b70f0094e3039bdb43c3f6ee1 upstream
> 
> fetch_cache_info() tries to get the number of cache leaves/levels
> for each CPU in order to pre-allocate memory for cacheinfo struct.
> Allocating this memory later triggers a:
>   'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context'
> in PREEMPT_RT kernels.
> 
> If there is no cache related information available in DT or ACPI,
> fetch_cache_info() fails and an error message is printed:
>   'Early cacheinfo failed, ret = ...'
> 
> Not having cache information should be a valid configuration.
> Remove the error message if fetch_cache_info() fails with -ENOENT.
> 
> Suggested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230404-hatred-swimmer-6fecdf33b57a@spud/
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230414081453.244787-4-pierre.gondois@arm.com
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>

How come this now needs a backport? Did the rest of the series get
backported, but not this one since it has no fixes tag?

Cheers,
Conor.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-30 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-30 20:19 [PATCH stable 6.3 v2] arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT Florian Fainelli
2023-05-30 21:39 ` Conor Dooley [this message]
2023-05-30 22:42   ` Florian Fainelli
2023-05-31  8:53     ` Sudeep Holla
2023-05-31  9:26       ` Conor Dooley
2023-05-31 15:28       ` Florian Fainelli
2023-05-31 15:43         ` Sudeep Holla
     [not found]           ` <0f2e3a2b-477b-cbd7-e756-4b3f4df8e045@broadcom.com>
2023-06-01  6:32             ` Sudeep Holla
2023-06-01 10:25               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-06-01 10:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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