From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
ak@linux.intel.com, karahmed@amazon.de, pbonzini@redhat.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Backport IBPB on context switch to non-dumpable process
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 09:32:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180307173202.GK7097@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1520026221.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 01:32:08PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> Greg,
>
> I will like to propose backporting "x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch
> Prediction Barrier on context switch" from commit 18bf3c3e in upstream
> to 4.9 and 4.4 stable. The patch has already been ported to 4.14 and
> 4.15 stable. The patch needs mm context id that Andy added in commit
> f39681ed. I have lifted the mm context id change from Andy's upstream
> patch and included it here.
Applied to 4.9.y, but I need a separate set of patches for 4.4.y in
order for them to work there. Can you provide that?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-07 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-02 21:32 [PATCH 0/2] Backport IBPB on context switch to non-dumpable process Tim Chen
2018-03-02 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/mm: Give each mm a unique ID Tim Chen
2018-03-07 17:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-08 18:23 ` Tim Chen
2018-03-10 1:04 ` Tim Chen
2018-03-10 1:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-02 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch Tim Chen
2018-03-03 8:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] Backport IBPB on context switch to non-dumpable process Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-03 11:37 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-03-07 17:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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