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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:23:59 -0800 From: "Shi, Yang" <yang.shi@...aro.org> To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> CC: Will.Deacon@....com, stable@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org Subject: Re: [V2 PATCH] arm64: restore bogomips information in /proc/cpuinfo On 11/19/2015 9:59 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:48:55AM -0800, Yang Shi wrote: >> As what Pavel Machek reported [1], some userspace applications depend on >> bogomips showed by /proc/cpuinfo. >> >> Although there is much less legacy impact on aarch64 than arm, but it does >> break libvirt. >> >> Basically, this patch reverts commit 326b16db9f69fd0d279be873c6c00f88c0a4aad5 >> ("arm64: delay: don't bother reporting bogomips in /proc/cpuinfo"), but with >> some tweak due to context change. >> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/4/132 >> >> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com> >> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> #3.12+ >> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org> > > Patch applied as a fix for stable, basically returning back to the > pre-3.12 behaviour. If there is a need for some more useful information > here, it can be done as an additional patch, though without cc: stable. Thanks. This approach sounds safer to usersapce. Yang > > Thanks. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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