public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, svens@stackframe.org,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 4/9] parisc: Provide an extru_safe() macro to extract unsigned bits
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:57:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46b2abb0-ee45-88de-c920-eab37df813f2@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211204121553.GA14855@duo.ucw.cz>

On 12/4/21 13:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 169d1a4a2adb2c246396c56aa2f9eec3868546f1 ]
>>
>> The extru instruction leaves the most significant 32 bits of the
>> target register in an undefined state on PA 2.0 systems.
>> Provide a macro to safely use extru on 32- and 64-bit machines.
>
> As the macro is not used by subsequent 4.4 patches,

That's basically true, but in case we backport some patches later on,
it's handy if it's already in.

> I don't believe this is suitable for -stable.

Please note that I didn't added a backport-request in my original commit.
I'm fine with any decision if it's either dropped or kept.

Helge

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-04 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-30 14:53 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 1/9] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 2/9] NFSv4.1: handle NFS4ERR_NOSPC by CREATE_SESSION Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 3/9] HID: multitouch: Fix Iiyama ProLite T1931SAW (0eef:0001 again!) Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 4/9] parisc: Provide an extru_safe() macro to extract unsigned bits Sasha Levin
2021-12-04 12:15   ` Pavel Machek
2021-12-04 14:57     ` Helge Deller [this message]
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 5/9] mmc: spi: Add device-tree SPI IDs Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 6/9] smb2: clarify rc initialization in smb2_reconnect Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:54 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 7/9] PM: hibernate: Fix snapshot partial write lengths Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:54 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 8/9] net: ptp: add a definition for the UDP port for IEEE 1588 general messages Sasha Levin
2021-12-04 12:18   ` Pavel Machek
2021-11-30 14:54 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 9/9] fs: ntfs: Limit NTFS_RW to page sizes smaller than 64k Sasha Levin
2021-12-04 12:23   ` Pavel Machek

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=46b2abb0-ee45-88de-c920-eab37df813f2@gmx.de \
    --to=deller@gmx.de \
    --cc=James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com \
    --cc=dave.anglin@bell.net \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=pavel@denx.de \
    --cc=sashal@kernel.org \
    --cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=svens@stackframe.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox