linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] s390 patches for the 4.17 merge window #1

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Date:   Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:18:21 +0200
From:   Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] s390 patches for the 4.17 merge window #1

Hi Linus,

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:12:42 +0200
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com> wrote:

> please pull from the 'for-linus' branch of
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git for-linus
> 
> to receive the following updates:
> 
>  * Improvements for the spectre defense:
>    - The spectre related code is consolidated to a single file nospec-branch.c
>    - Automatic enable/disable for the spectre v2 defenses (expoline vs. nobp)
>    - Syslog messages for specve v2 are added
>    - Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES and define the attribute
>      functions for spectre v1 and v2
> 
>  * Add helper macros for assembler alternatives and use them to shorten
>    the code in entry.S.
> 
>  * Add support for persistent configuration data via the SCLP Store Data
>    interface. The H/W interface requires a page table that uses 4K pages
>    only, the code to setup such an address space is added as well.
> 
>  * Enable virtio GPU emulation in QEMU. To do this the depends statements
>    for a few common Kconfig options are modified.
> 
>  * Add support for format-3 channel path descriptors and add a binary
>    sysfs interface to export the associated utility strings.
> 
>  * Add a sysfs attribute to control the IFCC handling in case of constant
>    channel errors.
> 
>  * The vfio-ccw changes from Cornelia.
> 
>  * Bug fixes and cleanups.
> 
> There is a trivial merge conflict in drivers/video/console/Kconfig.

Ping.

Did this please-pull get lost or is there a deeper reason that prevents
the upstream integration?

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.