linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.14 000/164] 4.14.6-stable review

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Message-id: <68ccc21c-2c89-554d-6ca7-22cf9e6bad63@samsung.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 07:48:43 +0100
From:   Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:     Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 000/164] 4.14.6-stable review

Hi Shuah and Greg,

On 2017-12-12 15:47, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 12/12/2017 05:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.6 release.
>> There are 164 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 Thu Dec 14 12:34:08 UTC 2017.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>> 	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.6-rc1.gz
>> or in the git tree and branch at:
>>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.14.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
>   
>> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
>>      drm: safely free connectors from connector_iter
>>
>> Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
>>      drm/bridge: analogix dp: Fix runtime PM state in get_modes() callback
>>
> The above two patches have been found to be the cause of boot hang on
> exynos Peach Pi(t) chromebooks.
>
> I am adding Daniel and Marek to the thread.

The deadlock is caused by the Daniels patch. My patch only changes the order
of device initialization what might hide or reveal bug related to 
Daniels patch.

My drm/bridge patch it is definitely needed for v4.14 stable to fix boot 
issue
on Samsung Snow Chromebooks (Exynos 5250 based).

Best regards

-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland