linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.13-7 tag

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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 22:45:07 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.13-7 tag

Hi Linus,

Please pull another powerpc fix for 4.13:

The following changes since commit 96ea91e7b6ee2c406598d859e7348b4829404eea:

  powerpc/watchdog: add locking around init/exit functions (2017-08-09 23:45:33 +1000)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git tags/powerpc-4.13-7

for you to fetch changes up to 5a69aec945d27e78abac9fd032533d3aaebf7c1e:

  powerpc: Fix VSX enabling/flushing to also test MSR_FP and MSR_VEC (2017-08-16 19:35:54 +1000)

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powerpc fixes for 4.13 #7

A bug in the VSX register saving that could cause userspace FP/VMX register
corruption. Never seen to happen (that we know of), was found by code
inspection, but still tagged for stable given the consequences.

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1):
      powerpc: Fix VSX enabling/flushing to also test MSR_FP and MSR_VEC

 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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