linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] powerpc: Allow flush_icache

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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 11:49:07 -0600
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@....ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, alastair@...ilva.org,
        Qian Cai <cai@....pw>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] powerpc: Allow flush_icache_range to work across ranges >4GB

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 07:04:04AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 04/11/2019 à 20:43, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> >Please send this separately, to be committed right now?  It is a bug fix,
> >independent of the rest of the series.
> 
> Patch 4/6 needs it, as it drops the function.
> 
> Or do you mean that the series should drop the assembly at once, and 
> this patch should only go into stable ?

I meant that you can say these patches (yes, 2/ as well) are bug fixes,
independent of the rest, and they can be picked up immediately, there
is no need to wait for v18 of this series.

> But I guess mpe can take this patch alone if he wants to ?

Yeah, but you can help him do that ;-)


Segher