From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EFEC04EB8 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:18:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E152145D for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:18:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="oBsAhDLH" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 85E152145D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727428AbeLAC2Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:28:25 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:49896 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726564AbeLAC2Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:28:25 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CFC4D2146D; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:18:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1543591125; bh=bbVyKOAH0JGHUKe9uMIp+Tvg2TLNJkwDSJcfJm3c6+U=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=oBsAhDLHwX/eK7kz0Dk0MRR8+ZIB57xkZhOdYL4umtSFWCIlqDLoxY1iWf1yb5/CB CaRgww16f9mdxoXRl8JzR96nmJNrdbyEf7KeEgjt6oet0cntjKd07Y+WEdeW28kRjR kA3Dnkmyvv8coUDNBN2X8M+c/NTJK1hm9x61Hm+g= Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:18:43 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Julien Thierry , Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 14/83] ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init Message-ID: <20181130151843.GB29005@kroah.com> References: <20181129140138.002176596@linuxfoundation.org> <20181129140138.869602566@linuxfoundation.org> <20181129142817.GW30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20181130151554.GA29005@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181130151554.GA29005@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.0 (2018-11-25) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:15:54PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:28:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As I've already fed back to Sascha about this, this patch on its own > > does not fix anything, and is not a stable kernel candidate without > > a patch that makes use of it (iow, the spectre fixes.) It is a > > preparatory patch for mainline commit 383fb3ee8024. > > > > Every commit in: > > > > $ git rev-list v4.16..383fb3ee8024 > > > > are the ARM spectre fixes, which are being back-ported by David Long. > > > > Please do not cherry-pick commits from within this series for _any_ > > stable kernel, but please wait for David to send you the back-ported > > patches. > > Ugh, ok, that's a bunch here. Ok, not that bad, only 4: 383fb3ee8024 ("ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems") e209950fdd06 ("ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros") 945aceb1db88 ("ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call") 899a42f83667 ("ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init") I'll go drop them all from the trees now. Turns out for 4.14 one of these patches broke the build anyway. Sasha, how did that past your builder tests? thanks, greg k-h