linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 01/54] [3.19-stable-only] Revert "powerpc: Update TM user feature bits in scan

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 11:40:04 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 01/54] [3.19-stable-only] Revert "powerpc:
 Update TM user feature bits in scan_features()"

On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 17:04 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:

> 3.19.8-ckt21 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ---8<------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> From: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
> 
> This reverts commit cde5ccf81fd35d89940b841e808cc9cd5492b5bc.
> 
> Not suitable for 3.19-stable (no PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC_COMP).

The patch should still go in, but without NOSC. ie just:

> +	{CPU_FTR_TM_COMP, 0, 0, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_COMP, 22, 0, 0},


Do you want me to send a proper backport?

cheers