From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46474 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753033AbbHGBcd (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:32:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 18:32:32 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Paul Burton Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, markos.chandras@imgtec.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace mips32r2 ISA level with mips64r2" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree Message-ID: <20150807013232.GB9740@kroah.com> References: <14389038011791@kroah.com> <20150806233815.GJ26603@NP-P-BURTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150806233815.GJ26603@NP-P-BURTON> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:38:15PM -0700, Paul Burton wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:30:01PM -0700, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace mips32r2 ISA level with mips64r2 > > > > to the 4.1-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: > > mips-kernel-cps-vec-replace-mips32r2-isa-level-with-mips64r2.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > Hi Greg, > > This patch breaks the boot of SMP kernels on Imagination's current > MIPS32 systems. This & the other MIPS64 related patches that were > submitted as part of the same series do not improve things for any CPUs > that Linux supports even as of the v4.2 cycle, so I do not believe they > should have been marked for backport. > > So please either drop this patch (& preferrably the other MIPS64 CPS SMP > ones too) or also backport the series I've just submitted: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mips&m=143881461431570&w=2 > > My preference would be for not backporting any of these: > > > queue-4.1/mips-kernel-cps-vec-replace-mips32r2-isa-level-with-mips64r2.patch > > queue-4.1/mips-kernel-cps-vec-use-ta0-ta3-pseudo-registers-for-64-bit.patch > > queue-4.1/revert-mips-kconfig-disable-smp-cps-for-64-bit.patch > > queue-4.1/mips-kernel-cps-vec-replace-la-macro-with-ptr_la.patch > > queue-4.1/mips-kernel-smp-cps-fix-64-bit-compatibility-errors-due-to-pointer-casting.patch > > queue-4.1/mips-kernel-cps-vec-replace-kseg0-with-ckseg0.patch > > queue-4.1/mips-cps-vec-use-macros-for-various-arithmetics-and-memory-operations.patch Thanks, I'll go drop all of these from the queue. greg k-h