linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/67] 4.4.1-stable review

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:21:27 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	shuah.kh@...sung.com, info@...nelci.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/67] 4.4.1-stable review

On 01/27/2016 06:23 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 01/27/2016 10:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> -------------------------
>> NOTE:
>>    There are still a lot of pending stable patches in the queue, well
>>    over 400 of them to be specific, so some of your favorite/pet patches
>>    might not be included in these releases.  Please be patient as I dig
>>    out from this backlog over the next few weeks.  If there are specific
>>    patches that you just _must_ have included in a stable release soon,
>>    please let me know.
>> -------------------------
>>
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.1 release.
>> There are 67 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Responses should be made by Fri Jan 29 18:08:16 UTC 2016.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
> Build results:
>      total: 145 pass: 145 fail: 0
>
> Qemu test results:
>      total: 96 pass: 94 fail: 2
> Failed tests:
>      arm64:smp:defconfig
>      arm64:nosmp:defconfig
>
> arm64 qemu test failures are the same as in v4.1.y, v4.3.y, and mainline.
>

Fix is now upstream, in case you want to apply it to v4.1 / v4.3 / v4.4.
Commit f436b2ac90a0 ("arm64: kernel: fix architected PMU registers
unconditional access").

Guenter