From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:51610 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725869AbeLBPRo (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2018 10:17:44 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 10:17:32 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Julien Thierry Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 14/83] ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init Message-ID: <20181202151732.GH221015@sasha-vm> References: <20181129140138.002176596@linuxfoundation.org> <20181129140138.869602566@linuxfoundation.org> <20181129142817.GW30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20181130151554.GA29005@kroah.com> <20181130151843.GB29005@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181130151843.GB29005@kroah.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:15:54PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:28:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > As I've already fed back to Sascha about this, this patch on its own >> > does not fix anything, and is not a stable kernel candidate without >> > a patch that makes use of it (iow, the spectre fixes.) It is a >> > preparatory patch for mainline commit 383fb3ee8024. >> > >> > Every commit in: >> > >> > $ git rev-list v4.16..383fb3ee8024 >> > >> > are the ARM spectre fixes, which are being back-ported by David Long. >> > >> > Please do not cherry-pick commits from within this series for _any_ >> > stable kernel, but please wait for David to send you the back-ported >> > patches. >> >> Ugh, ok, that's a bunch here. > >Ok, not that bad, only 4: > 383fb3ee8024 ("ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems") > e209950fdd06 ("ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros") > 945aceb1db88 ("ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call") > 899a42f83667 ("ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init") > >I'll go drop them all from the trees now. Turns out for 4.14 one of >these patches broke the build anyway. Sasha, how did that past your >builder tests? Because it builds :) -- Thanks, Sasha