From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53216 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbbLGNkm (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:40:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:40:37 -0500 From: Greg KH To: Vitaly Kuznetsov Cc: jiang.liu@linux.intel.com, kys@microsoft.com, tglx@linutronix.de, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, Boris Ostrovsky , xen-devel@lists.xen.org Subject: Re: Patch "x86/irq: Probe for PIC presence before allocating descs for legacy IRQs" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree Message-ID: <20151207134037.GA30991@kroah.com> References: <1449477097149219@kroah.com> <87r3iy4dx0.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r3iy4dx0.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 01:54:35PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > writes: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > x86/irq: Probe for PIC presence before allocating descs for legacy IRQs > > > > to the 4.3-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: > > x86-irq-probe-for-pic-presence-before-allocating-descs-for-legacy-irqs.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > This commit is known for breaking Xen PV guests, the breakage is fixed > with the following: > > commit b4ff8389ed14b849354b59ce9b360bdefcdbf99c > Author: Boris Ostrovsky > Date: Fri Nov 20 11:25:04 2015 -0500 > > xen/events: Always allocate legacy interrupts on PV guests > > I suggest we include this commit as well. Same for 4.2-stable tree. Thanks, now applied. greg k-h