This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: pcm: use the same dma mmap codepath both for arm and arm64

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     alsa-pcm-use-the-same-dma-mmap-codepath-both-for-arm-and-arm64.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a011e213f3700233ed2a676f1ef0a74a052d7162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomo...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:43:34 -0700
Subject: ALSA: pcm: use the same dma mmap codepath both for arm and arm64

From: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomo...@gmail.com>

commit a011e213f3700233ed2a676f1ef0a74a052d7162 upstream.

This avoids following kernel crash when try to playback on arm64

[  107.497203] [<ffffffc00046b310>] snd_pcm_mmap_data_fault+0x90/0xd4
[  107.503405] [<ffffffc0001541ac>] __do_fault+0xb0/0x498
[  107.508565] [<ffffffc0001576a0>] handle_mm_fault+0x224/0x7b0
[  107.514246] [<ffffffc000092640>] do_page_fault+0x11c/0x310
[  107.519738] [<ffffffc000081100>] do_mem_abort+0x38/0x98

Tested: backported to 3.14 and tried to playback on arm64 machine

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomo...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/pcm_native.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -3189,7 +3189,7 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct
 
 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_DMA_MMAP_COHERENT
 /* This should be defined / handled globally! */
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM
+#if defined(CONFIG_ARM) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
 #define ARCH_HAS_DMA_MMAP_COHERENT
 #endif
 #endif


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anatol.pomo...@gmail.com 
are

queue-3.14/alsa-pcm-use-the-same-dma-mmap-codepath-both-for-arm-and-arm64.patch
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