From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mpe@ellerman.id.au, anton@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
paulus@samba.org, oohall@gmail.com, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca,
naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ppc64le: Enable emulation support for simple Load/Store instructions
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:15:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020081543.GC27001@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476945115-4723-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:01:55PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> emulate_step() uses a number of underlying kernel functions that were
> initially not enabled for LE. This has been rectified since. So, fix
> emulate_step() for LE for the corresponding instructions.
>
> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Note: This patch only enables LOAD, STORE, LARX and STCX instructions.
> I'll send a subsequent patch for other types like LOAD_FP,
> LOAD_VMX etc.
>
> arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
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2016-10-20 6:31 [RFC] ppc64le: Enable emulation support for simple Load/Store instructions Ravi Bangoria
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