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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>,
	loongarch@lists.linux.dev, Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>,
	Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>, Xuerui Wang <kernel@xen0n.name>,
	Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, loongson-kernel@lists.loongnix.cn,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] LoongArch: Ensure FP/SIMD registers in the core dump file is up to date
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:43:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023082609-coerce-capricorn-a69f@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAhV-H4aKT=O1Ly7Zw+oSuVDP73kcXf+boAJK5W=6n76Ftz=WA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 11:35:31PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 11:22 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:23:41PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > > This is a port of commit 379eb01c21795edb4c ("riscv: Ensure the value
> > > of FP registers in the core dump file is up to date").
> > >
> > > The values of FP/SIMD registers in the core dump file come from the
> > > thread.fpu. However, kernel saves the FP/SIMD registers only before
> > > scheduling out the process. If no process switch happens during the
> > > exception handling, kernel will not have a chance to save the latest
> > > values of FP/SIMD registers. So it may cause their values in the core
> > > dump file incorrect. To solve this problem, force fpr_get()/simd_get()
> > > to save the FP/SIMD registers into the thread.fpu if the target task
> > > equals the current task.
> > >
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
> > > ---
> > > V2: Rename get_fpu_regs() to save_fpu_regs().
> >
> > What stable tree(s) is this for?
> For 5.19+, but before 6.4 we should remove the call site in simd_get()
> because that function doesn't exist.

But this commit is already in the following released kernels:
	5.10.62 5.13.14 5.14
so how can it be backported?

totally confused,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-26 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-26 14:23 [PATCH V2] LoongArch: Ensure FP/SIMD registers in the core dump file is up to date Huacai Chen
2023-08-26 15:22 ` Greg KH
2023-08-26 15:35   ` Huacai Chen
2023-08-26 15:43     ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-08-26 15:47       ` Huacai Chen
2023-08-26 15:52         ` Greg KH

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