linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 043/161] MIPS: JZ4770: Work around config2 misreporting associativity

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Message-ID: <20180415144443.GR2341@sasha-vm>
Date:   Sun, 15 Apr 2018 14:44:45 +0000
From:   Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
To:     James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
CC:     "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@...ewalker.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        "linux-mips@...ux-mips.org" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 043/161] MIPS: JZ4770: Work around
 config2 misreporting associativity

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:08:38PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 12:20:20AM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@...ewalker.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 1f7412e0e2f327fe7dc5a0c2fc36d7b319d05d47 ]
>>
>> According to config2, the associativity would be 5-ways, but the
>> documentation states 4-ways, which also matches the documented
>> L2 cache size of 256 kB.
>
>JZ4770 support is new in 4.16, so no need for this to be backported.
>More likely it'll just break the build due to references to
>MACH_INGENIC_JZ4770.
>
>Cheers
>James

Now removed, thanks James!