Patch "Revert "x86/ioapic: Restore IO-APIC irq_chip retrigger callback"" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Revert "x86/ioapic: Restore IO-APIC irq_chip retrigger callback"

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     revert-x86-ioapic-restore-io-apic-irq_chip-retrigger-callback.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d966564fcdc19e13eb6ba1fbe6b8101070339c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:08:29 -0800
Subject: Revert "x86/ioapic: Restore IO-APIC irq_chip retrigger callback"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit d966564fcdc19e13eb6ba1fbe6b8101070339c3d upstream.

This reverts commit 020eb3daaba2857b32c4cf4c82f503d6a00a67de.

Gabriel C reports that it causes his machine to not boot, and we haven't
tracked down the reason for it yet.  Since the bug it fixes has been
around for a longish time, we're better off reverting the fix for now.

Gabriel says:
 "It hangs early and freezes with a lot RCU warnings.

  I bisected it down to :

  > Ruslan Ruslichenko (1):
  >       x86/ioapic: Restore IO-APIC irq_chip retrigger callback

  Reverting this one fixes the problem for me..

  The box is a PRIMERGY TX200 S5 , 2 socket , 2 x E5520 CPU(s) installed"

and Ruslan and Thomas are currently stumped.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
Cc: Ruslan Ruslichenko <rruslich@cisco.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -1875,7 +1875,6 @@ static struct irq_chip ioapic_chip __rea
 	.irq_ack		= irq_chip_ack_parent,
 	.irq_eoi		= ioapic_ack_level,
 	.irq_set_affinity	= ioapic_set_affinity,
-	.irq_retrigger		= irq_chip_retrigger_hierarchy,
 	.flags			= IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE,
 };
 
@@ -1887,7 +1886,6 @@ static struct irq_chip ioapic_ir_chip __
 	.irq_ack		= irq_chip_ack_parent,
 	.irq_eoi		= ioapic_ir_ack_level,
 	.irq_set_affinity	= ioapic_set_affinity,
-	.irq_retrigger		= irq_chip_retrigger_hierarchy,
 	.flags			= IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE,
 };
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@linux-foundation.org are

queue-4.4/revert-x86-ioapic-restore-io-apic-irq_chip-retrigger-callback.patch
queue-4.4/arc-brown-paper-bag-bug-in-unaligned-access-delay-slot-fixup.patch