linux-kernel - ARC stable backport request for 4.4 and 4.2

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:44:31 -0700
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	arcml <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: ARC stable backport request for 4.4 and 4.2

Hi,

Could you please backport the following upstream commits for v4.4 and v4.2

4d0cb15fccd1db9 ("ARCv2: Check for LL-SC livelock only if LLSC is enabled")
b31ac42697bef4a ("ARCv2: LLSC: software backoff is NOT needed starting HS2.1c")

Thx,
-Vineet