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

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Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:41:54 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 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 01/31/2016 11:17 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 07:21:27PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> 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").
>
> I've applied it to 4.3 and 4.4, but it doesn't apply to 4.1 at all :(
>

Turns out f436b2ac90a0 wasn't needed in 4.1 after all since you did not
apply 60792ad349f3 ("arm64: kernel: enforce pmuserenr_el0 initialization
and restore"). All (my) final builds and qemu tests for 4.1.17, 4.3.5,
and 4.4.1 are good.

Thanks,
Guenter