From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CAFC0650F for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2019 20:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31645214C6 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2019 20:18:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1565036331; bh=pRLkhlS1bIfbTqQwY8PiDF9HnJcn2wazvkc3C6n7Eyg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=gmNXjYyuSyxf8q/mbeDMgK3+p3VtsxkI22v3h4DvPBWpYRf3k2H85sa2kknM3Gp6k KyUk860knyA6BHul+SClPGPx8yCz4vvSdwgzbCek0bDQEreT6Zisj5IBYqB5x4Vaug v9TKjVZPFUDZN3eFqYEe8i1yCJnSswnnxe8z5pTg= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727802AbfHEUSu (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2019 16:18:50 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60646 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727460AbfHEUSu (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2019 16:18:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05DE520C01; Mon, 5 Aug 2019 20:18:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1565036329; bh=pRLkhlS1bIfbTqQwY8PiDF9HnJcn2wazvkc3C6n7Eyg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=maijMol2GFjxuAcla8iNE9/Kt0UoL0FRBdXdMVirjWp7FNXwH7hBasdELw5rtfnOY aYeTQ3GmRDyK+RWN+0nh/LOSXJqjLpThs+2PiyPpx2Gq+BnrhIWDPIa7H6DSjgwGAD 59IfsJfxnyB86nL24j7yj5JfnAWk+0A+aPC7XH9A= Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 22:18:47 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Jari Ruusu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/42] 4.9.188-stable review Message-ID: <20190805201847.GA31714@kroah.com> References: <20190805124924.788666484@linuxfoundation.org> <5D488D55.B84FC098@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5D488D55.B84FC098@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:11:01PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.188 release. > > Peter Zijlstra's "x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()" > upstream commit 69d927bba39517d0980462efc051875b7f4db185 seems to > be missing/lost from 4.9 and older stable kernels. > > That patch has 10 hunks, first one of those does not apply cleanly to > 4.9 kernel because it attempts to modify Documentation/atomic_t.txt > file which does not exist in older kernels. Other 9 hunks apply with > small offsets and fuzz, but modifications find their correct places anyway. > Those other 9 hunks are the important ones, first hunk can be ignored. > > Greg, > Please take Peter Zijlstra's original patch and "force" apply it like this > to 4.9 kernels: > > patch -p1 -f > and for 4.4 kernels like this: > > cat ORIGINAL.patch | sed -e 's/__smp_mb__/smp_mb__/' | patch -p1 -f -l Can you send properly backported and tested patches? thanks, greg k-h