linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:15:40 +0100
From:   Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review

Christoph Biedl wrote...

> Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Building yesterday's
> release (v4.19.14) *failed*, bisect led to
>
> | commit a9935a12768851762089fda8e5a9daaf0231808e (HEAD)
> | Author: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
> | Date:   Mon Nov 26 18:12:00 2018 -0200
> |
> |     powerpc/tm: Unset MSR[TS] if not recheckpointing
>
> Reverting that commit seems to be sufficient, build passes then.
>
> Additionally, neither 4.20 nor 5.0-rc1 show this problem. The
> | commit 6f5b9f018f4c7686fd944d920209d1382d320e4e upstream.
> builds as well, so I'll try to find the missing prerequisite next.

Cherry-picking

| commit 5c784c8414fba11b62e12439f11e109fb5751f38
| Author: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
| Date:   Thu Aug 16 14:21:07 2018 -0300
|
|     powerpc/tm: Remove msr_tm_active()

makes the build pass. Bruno, does this make sense?

     Christoph