[request for stable inclusion] arm64: perf: fix unassigned cpu_pmu->plat_device when probing PMU PPIs

2015-08-27 Thread Kefeng Wang
Hi Greg and Shannon, b265da5a45ce60bd3d7505cc0eaa6cfba50946a1 arm64: perf: fix unassigned cpu_pmu->plat_device when probing PMU PPIs This looks applicable to stable-4.1, that fix "No PMU device registered" when use "perf list hw",which was introduced by commit d795ef9aa831("arm64: perf: don't war

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ipmi: fix timeout calculation when bmc is disconnected

2015-08-12 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 08/13/2015, 03:33 AM, Xie XiuQi wrote: > e21404d ipmi: fix timeout calculation when bmc is disconnected > > This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, stable-3.10 and stable-3.12, > that fixed a bug when bmc is disconnected. Sebastian Parschauer > () also found this bug on linux-3.12.y. Applie

[request for stable inclusion] ipmi: fix timeout calculation when bmc is disconnected

2015-08-12 Thread Xie XiuQi
Hi Zefan, Greg, and Jiri, e21404d ipmi: fix timeout calculation when bmc is disconnected This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, stable-3.10 and stable-3.12, that fixed a bug when bmc is disconnected. Sebastian Parschauer () also found this bug on linux-3.12.y. It was built successful for me

Re: [request for stable inclusion] softirq: reduce latencies

2015-08-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 14:29 +0800, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Zefan, > > c10d73671ad30f54692f7f69f0e09e75d3a8926a > softirq: reduce latencies > > This commit can reduce softirq latencies in some various network workloads. > > 34376a50fb1fa095b9d0636fa41ed2e73125f214 > Fix lockup related to stop_machi

Re: [request for stable inclusion][Patch 3.4.y] x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()

2015-07-30 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:03:48AM +0800, Rui Xiang wrote: > ping > > On 2015/7/29 19:03, Rui Xiang wrote: 2 days ago? For a very old and slowly updated kernel release? Hah, be happy if you get a response in a month... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in

Re: [request for stable inclusion][Patch 3.4.y] x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()

2015-07-30 Thread Rui Xiang
ping On 2015/7/29 19:03, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Zefan, Suresh or Peter, > > 9c1c3fac53378c9782c18f80107965578d7b7167 > x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu() > > We never cause the "Device Not Available" exception in kernel mode, > but without this patch, the orign u

[request for stable inclusion][Patch 3.4.y] x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()

2015-07-29 Thread Rui Xiang
Hi Zefan, Suresh or Peter, 9c1c3fac53378c9782c18f80107965578d7b7167 x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu() We never cause the "Device Not Available" exception in kernel mode, but without this patch, the orign unlazy_fpu() do stts(), the following fpu_restore_checking() w

[request for stable inclusion][Patch 3.4.y] x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()

2015-07-29 Thread Rui Xiang
9c1c3fac53378c9782c18f80107965578d7b7167 x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu() We never cause the "Device Not Available" exception in kernel mode, but without this patch, the orign unlazy_fpu() do stts(), the following fpu_restore_checking() will trigger a DNA(Device Not

Re: [request for stable inclusion] softirq: reduce latencies

2015-06-14 Thread Zefan Li
于 2015/5/14 14:29, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Zefan, > > c10d73671ad30f54692f7f69f0e09e75d3a8926a > softirq: reduce latencies > > This commit can reduce softirq latencies in some various network workloads. > > 34376a50fb1fa095b9d0636fa41ed2e73125f214 > Fix lockup related to stop_machine being stuck i

[request for stable inclusion 3.10 and 3.12] Fix CVE-2014-8173

2015-03-20 Thread Wang Long
Hi Greg and Jiri, The following patch commit ee53664bda169f519ce3c6a22d378f0b946c8178 mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support fix CVE-2014-8173. I wish you could merge this fix into stable 3.10 and 3.12, because the linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems is affected

Re: [PATCH v3 0/2][request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-02-02 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 04:06:24PM +0800, HuKeping wrote: > Hi greg, > We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not > been merged yet. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. > Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? > > v1 -> v2: > - remove d4

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2015-02-02 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:31:27AM +, Hou Pengyang wrote: > Hi Greg, > > These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which > are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. > > For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-bit physical address is available, > translation

[PATCH v3 0/2][request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-28 Thread HuKeping
Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not been merged yet. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? v1 -> v2: - remove d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 which has already been merged -

[PATCH v2 0/2][request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-27 Thread HuKeping
Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not been merged yet. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? Change from v1: - remove d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 which has already been merg

Re: [PATCH 0/1] [request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-27 Thread Hu Keping
some of them have already been merged, I'll check it and resend later :) 于 2015/1/28 9:21, Greg KH 写道: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:57:47PM +0800, HuKeping wrote: Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not merged into it. Most of them are obvious and can b

Re: [PATCH 0/1] [request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-27 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:57:47PM +0800, HuKeping wrote: > Hi greg, > We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not > merged into it. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. > Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? > > PART 1: patches that can

request for stable inclusion: igb: bring link up when PHY is powered up

2014-12-09 Thread Vincent Donnefort
Hi, This patch fixes a bug on intel NICs which may avoid link to up when starting the interface or plugging the ethernet cable. Todd Fujinaka (1): igb: bring link up when PHY is powered up drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) -- 2.1.0 -- To unsu

[PATCH v3][request for stable inclusion][3.10.x]:ARM:sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes

2014-12-08 Thread xiaofeng.yan
commit 336ae1180df5f69b9e0fb6561bec01c5f64361cf ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes This looks applicable to stable-3.10, which load cycle count after epoch stabilizes, The function was moved from arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c to kernel/time/sched_clock.c because of upgradi

[PATCH v2][request for stable inclusion][3.10.x]:ARM:sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes

2014-12-08 Thread xiaofeng.yan
commit 336ae1180df5f69b9e0fb6561bec01c5f64361cf ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes This looks applicable to stable-3.10, which load cycle count after epoch stabilizes, The function was moved from arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c to kernel/time/sched_clock.c because of upgradi

[PATCH][request for stable inclusion][3.10.x]: ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes

2014-12-08 Thread xiaofeng.yan
This looks applicable to stable-3.10, which load cycle count after epoch stabilizes. The function was moved from arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c to kernel/time/sched_clock.c because of upgrading version. I rearrange this patch for fixing bug in stable-3.10. The commit id is 336ae1180df5f69b9e0fb656

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-07 Thread Hou Pengyang
On 2014/12/5 7:39, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, when LPAE

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >Hi Greg, > > > >These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which > >are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. > > > >For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-04 Thread Luis Henriques
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:22:20AM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > On 2014/12/2 21:44, Luis Henriques wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >>On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >>>Hi Greg, > >>> > >>>These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, mos

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-03 Thread Hou Pengyang
On 2014/12/2 21:44, Luis Henriques wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, w

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-02 Thread Luis Henriques
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >Hi Greg, > > > >These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which > >are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. > > > >For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-

[PATCH][request for stable inclusion][3.10.x]:ARM:sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes

2014-11-27 Thread xiaofeng.yan
commit 336ae1180df5f69b9e0fb6561bec01c5f64361cf ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes This looks applicable to stable-3.10, which load cycle count after epoch stabilizes, It was built successful for me. What do you think? Stephen Boyd (1): ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle coun

[PATCH] [request for stable inclusion]:sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes

2014-11-27 Thread xiaofeng.yan
commit 336ae1180df5f69b9e0fb6561bec01c5f64361cf ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes This looks applicable to stable-3.10, which load cycle count after epoch stabilizes, It was built successful for me. What do you think? Stephen Boyd (1): ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle coun

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-11-25 Thread Hou Pengyang
On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-bit physical address is available, translation table becomes 3-level, and every

Re: [request for stable inclusion 0/2] Two patches related to ARM instruction order

2014-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 06:37:14PM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Could you please queue following patches to 3.10 LTS queue and the >second one to 3.14 LTS queue? > >commit 63328070eff2f4fd730c86966a0dbc976147c39f: > ARM: Correct BUG() assembly to ensure it is endian-agnos

[request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-11-11 Thread Hou Pengyang
Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-bit physical address is available, translation table becomes 3-level, and every table entry is 64 bit instead of 32. Howe

[request for stable inclusion][3.4.x]ixgbevf: Prevent RX/TX statistics getting reset to zero

2014-11-05 Thread Weng Meiling
Hi Li, commit 936597631dd310e220544dc5c6075d924efd39b2 ixgbevf: Prevent RX/TX statistics getting reset to zero This looks applicable to stable-3.4, which fixed RX/TX statistics to be zero. We met the problem in our product, command ifconfig can't get RX/TX statistics. and this patch fixed the pr

[PATCH 0/1] [request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2014-11-03 Thread HuKeping
Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not merged into it. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? PART 1: patches that can be cleanly applied: 0405a5cec3406f19e69da07c8111a6bf1088ac29 pstore

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem()

2014-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 09:57 +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg and Zefan: > > upstream commit 7ba3ec5749ddb61f79f7be17b5fd7720eebc52de: > ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem() > > looks applicable for 3.10 and 3.4. > > On 3.10, without this patch we can easily trigger a bug using: > > #

Re: [request for stable inclusion]

2014-10-31 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 10/24/2014, 05:52 AM, Hou Pengyang wrote: > hi gerg, > > Now on IvyBridge machines with 3.10 stable, perf could not get proper > dTLB-load-misses event when performing "perf stat -e dTLB-load-misses > sleep 1", which outputs: > > Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': > 0 dTLB-load-misses >

[request for stable inclusion 0/2] Two patches related to ARM instruction order

2014-10-24 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Could you please queue following patches to 3.10 LTS queue and the second one to 3.14 LTS queue? commit 63328070eff2f4fd730c86966a0dbc976147c39f: ARM: Correct BUG() assembly to ensure it is endian-agnostic commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e: ARM: probes

[request for stable inclusion 1/2] ARM: Correct BUG() assembly to ensure it is endian-agnostic

2014-10-24 Thread Wang Nan
From: Ben Dooks commit 63328070eff2f4fd730c86966a0dbc976147c39f upstream. Currently BUG() uses .word or .hword to create the necessary illegal instructions. However if we are building BE8 then these get swapped by the linker into different illegal instructions in the text. This means that the BU

[request for stable inclusion 2/2] ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with

2014-10-24 Thread Wang Nan
From: Ben Dooks commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e upstream. If we are running BE8, the data and instruction endianness do not match, so use to correctly translate memory accesses into ARM instructions. Acked-by: Jon Medhurst Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [taras.kondrat...@linaro.org

[request for stable inclusion]

2014-10-23 Thread Hou Pengyang
hi gerg, Now on IvyBridge machines with 3.10 stable, perf could not get proper dTLB-load-misses event when performing "perf stat -e dTLB-load-misses sleep 1", which outputs: Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 0 dTLB-load-misses 1.000951106 seconds time elapsed 0 dTLB-load-misses means w

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with

2014-10-13 Thread Wang Nan
On 2014/10/3 8:06, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:05:18AM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >>Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x? >> >>Commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e: >> ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with >> >>Without this

Re: [request for stable inclusion] perf kmem: Make it work again on non NUMA machines

2014-10-03 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:59:00PM +0800, zhangzhiqiang wrote: > hi Grep, > > commit 4921e320244e099bdf237fd10428594ce5f5b87d > > perf kmem: Make it work again on non NUMA machines > > the commit '2814eb0 perf kmem: Remove die() calls' disabled 'perf kmem' > command for machines without numa sup

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with

2014-10-02 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:05:18AM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x? > >Commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e: > ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with > >Without this patch, kprobe on ARM big endian is broke

Re: [request for stable inclusion 3.10-3.12] ARM: 7897/1: kexec: Use the right ISA for relocate_new_kernel

2014-10-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 09/30/2014, 06:18 AM, Liu hua wrote: > Hi Greg, Luis and Jiri, > > Upstream commit e2ccba49085ab5d71b092de2a5176eb9b19cc876 solved a > regression for THUMB2 kernel. > > Without this patch THUMB2 kernel can not go through kdump process. > This patch applies to v3.13+. And 3.10 stable ,3.11 stab

Re: [request for stable inclusion 3.10-3.12] ARM: 7897/1: kexec: Use the right ISA for relocate_new_kernel

2014-09-30 Thread Luis Henriques
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:18:41PM +0800, Liu hua wrote: > Hi Greg, Luis and Jiri, > > Upstream commit e2ccba49085ab5d71b092de2a5176eb9b19cc876 solved a > regression for THUMB2 kernel. > > Without this patch THUMB2 kernel can not go through kdump process. > This patch applies to v3.13+. And 3.10

[request for stable inclusion 3.10-3.12] ARM: 7897/1: kexec: Use the right ISA for relocate_new_kernel

2014-09-29 Thread Liu hua
Hi Greg, Luis and Jiri, Upstream commit e2ccba49085ab5d71b092de2a5176eb9b19cc876 solved a regression for THUMB2 kernel. Without this patch THUMB2 kernel can not go through kdump process. This patch applies to v3.13+. And 3.10 stable ,3.11 stable and 3.12 stable need it. And this patch can cherry-

[request for stable inclusion] perf kmem: Make it work again on non NUMA machines

2014-09-26 Thread zhangzhiqiang
hi all, Now on non NUMA machines with 3.10 stable,perf kmem command does not work well. For instance, when exec perf kmem record sleep 2, we can get the perf.data file correctly. but when we exec perf kmem stat there is nothing return. In upstream the bug has been fixed and perf kmem work well o

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem()

2014-09-22 Thread Zefan Li
On 2014/9/12 9:57, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg and Zefan: > > upstream commit 7ba3ec5749ddb61f79f7be17b5fd7720eebc52de: > ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem() > > looks applicable for 3.10 and 3.4. > > On 3.10, without this patch we can easily trigger a bug using: > > # mkfs.ext2 -b 40

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: 3 patch related to oom killer

2014-09-14 Thread Li Zefan
I've already sent these to stable mailing list. On 2014/9/12 10:22, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Upstream commit 0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c and > 1da4db0cd5c8a31d4468ec906b413e75e604b465 looks ignored by 3.10 (they are > included by 3.12.22). Without these patches we meet real dea

[request for stable inclusion]: 3 patch related to oom killer

2014-09-11 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Upstream commit 0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c and 1da4db0cd5c8a31d4468ec906b413e75e604b465 looks ignored by 3.10 (they are included by 3.12.22). Without these patches we meet real deadlock in oom killer code. They can not be clearly cherry-pick to 3.10.54 because 3.10 LTS doe

[request for stable inclusion]: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem()

2014-09-11 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg and Zefan: upstream commit 7ba3ec5749ddb61f79f7be17b5fd7720eebc52de: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem() looks applicable for 3.10 and 3.4. On 3.10, without this patch we can easily trigger a bug using: # mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 /dev/ram1 # mount -t ext2 -o xip /dev/ram1 /mnt # cp

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-09-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:52:43PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 08/28/2014 08:54 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On 08/27/2014 10:23 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > >>> Hi Greg, > >>> > >>> Could you please apply the following patches

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-09-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On 08/28/2014 08:54 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 08/27/2014 10:23 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? >>> >>> - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header >>> (f8

[PATCH] [request for stable inclusion] oabi: handle faults when loading swi instruction from userspace

2014-09-03 Thread Sheng Yong
commit 1aa2b3b7a6c4f3dbd3671171113a20e6a6190e3b: [PATCH] ARM: 7748/1: oabi: handle faults when loading swi instruction from userspace Hi Greg, Could you please queue the following patch to 3.10.x? We have this problem in 2.6.34, and find that the patch is not included in 3.10.x. This

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-08-28 Thread Markos Chandras
On 08/27/2014 10:23 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? >> >> - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header >> (f85b71ceabb9d8d8a9e34b045b5c43ffde3623b3) >> - MIPS: Malta

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-08-27 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? > > - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header > (f85b71ceabb9d8d8a9e34b045b5c43ffde3623b3) > - MIPS: Malta: EVA: Rename 'eva_entry' to 'platform_eva_ini

[request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-08-27 Thread Markos Chandras
Hi Greg, Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header (f85b71ceabb9d8d8a9e34b045b5c43ffde3623b3) - MIPS: Malta: EVA: Rename 'eva_entry' to 'platform_eva_init' (ca4d24f7954f3746742ba350c2276ff777f21173) - MIPS: CPS: Initialize EVA befor

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding

2014-08-18 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:59:33PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Could you please apply the following patch to the 3.16.X stable kernels? > > c3b9b945e02e011c63522761e91133ea43eb6939 > "MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding" Now applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send t

[request for stable inclusion] MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding

2014-08-18 Thread Markos Chandras
Hi Greg, Could you please apply the following patch to the 3.16.X stable kernels? c3b9b945e02e011c63522761e91133ea43eb6939 "MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding" Thank you -- markos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@v

[request for stable inclusion] ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with

2014-08-15 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x? Commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e: ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with Without this patch, kprobe on ARM big endian is broken. I have backport it to 3.10. Please see following post. Thank yo

[request for stable inclusion] perf kmem: Make it work again on non NUMA machines

2014-08-14 Thread zhangzhiqiang
hi Grep, commit 4921e320244e099bdf237fd10428594ce5f5b87d perf kmem: Make it work again on non NUMA machines the commit '2814eb0 perf kmem: Remove die() calls' disabled 'perf kmem' command for machines without numa support. It made the command fail if '/sys/devices/system/node' dir wasn't found.

Re: [request for stable inclusion] mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects

2014-08-04 Thread Luis Henriques
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:35:15AM +0800, Qiang Huang wrote: > Hi Greg, > > 7f88f88f83ed609650a01b18572e605ea50cd163 > mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects > > This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, it fixed a regression that > kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc()

Re: [request for stable inclusion] nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off

2014-08-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 12:02 +0800, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Greg or Thomas, > > 0e576acbc1d9600cf2d9b4a141a2554639959d50 > nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off > > This fixed an inconsistency about nohz. > > Without this patch, When we boot with nohz=off and CONFIG_

[request for stable inclusion] mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects

2014-07-24 Thread Qiang Huang
Hi Greg, 7f88f88f83ed609650a01b18572e605ea50cd163 mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, it fixed a regression that kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc() leaks. It was tested fine by me. This patch needs some adjustments, before

Re: [request for stable inclusion 0/3] serial: 8250_dw

2014-07-07 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:57:46PM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Could you please queue following patches to 3.10.x? > >commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa: > serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d

Re: [request for stable inclusion 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-07-01 Thread Wang Nan
On 2014/6/25 15:20, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d >serial: 8250_d

Re: [request for stable inclusion v2 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-26 Thread Luis Henriques
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:33:29PM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7

Re: [request for stable inclusion] nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off

2014-06-26 Thread Luis Henriques
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:02:34PM +0800, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Greg or Thomas, > > 0e576acbc1d9600cf2d9b4a141a2554639959d50 > nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off > > This fixed an inconsistency about nohz. > > Without this patch, When we boot with nohz=off and

Re: [request for stable inclusion 3/3] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression

2014-06-25 Thread Markus Mayer
Updating Tim Kryger's e-mail address. On 25 June 2014 00:20, Wang Nan wrote: > From: James Hogan > > upstream unclusion > DTS: DTS2014060600056 > directory: cherry-pick > > > > commit 6979f8d28049879e6147767d93ba6732c8bd94f4 upstream > > Commit c49436b657

Re: [request for stable inclusion v2 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 06/25/2014 10:33 AM, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d >serial:

[request for stable inclusion v2 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround 6979f8d280

[request for stable inclusion v2 2/3] serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d upstream. When configured with UART_16550_COMPATIBLE=NO or in versions prior to the introduction of this option, the Designware UART will ignore writes to the LCR if the UART is busy. The current workaround saves a copy of the las

[request for stable inclusion v2 1/3] serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa upstream. When a serial port is configured for RTS/CTS flow control, serial core will disable the transmitter if it observes CTS is de-asserted. This is perfectly reasonable and appropriate when the UART lacks the ability to automa

[request for stable inclusion v2 3/3] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: James Hogan commit 6979f8d28049879e6147767d93ba6732c8bd94f4 upstream. Commit c49436b657d0 (serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround) caused a regression. It added a check that the LCR was written properly to detect and workaround the busy quirk, but the behaviour of bit 5 (UART_L

Re: [request for stable inclusion 1/3] serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow

2014-06-25 Thread Li Zefan
On 2014/6/25 15:20, Wang Nan wrote: > From: Tim Kryger > ... > upstream inclusion > DTS: DTS2014060600056 > directory: cherry-pick > > > Please remove the above lines. > commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa upstream > commit 33acbb82695f84

Re: [request for stable inclusion 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
On 2014/6/25 15:20, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d >serial: 8250_d

[request for stable inclusion 3/3] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: James Hogan upstream unclusion DTS: DTS2014060600056 directory: cherry-pick commit 6979f8d28049879e6147767d93ba6732c8bd94f4 upstream Commit c49436b657d0 (serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround) caused a regression. It added a check tha

[request for stable inclusion 2/3] serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger upstream inclusion DTS: DTS2014060600056 directory: cherry-pick commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d upstream When configured with UART_16550_COMPATIBLE=NO or in versions prior to the introduction of this option, the Designwa

[request for stable inclusion 1/3] serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger upstream inclusion DTS: DTS2014060600056 directory: cherry-pick commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa upstream When a serial port is configured for RTS/CTS flow control, serial core will disable the transmitter if it observes

[request for stable inclusion 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround 6979f8d280498

Re: [request for stable inclusion] nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off

2014-06-24 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:02:34PM +0800, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Greg or Thomas, > > 0e576acbc1d9600cf2d9b4a141a2554639959d50 > nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off > > This fixed an inconsistency about nohz. > > Without this patch, When we boot with nohz=off and

[request for stable inclusion] nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off

2014-06-23 Thread Rui Xiang
Hi Greg or Thomas, 0e576acbc1d9600cf2d9b4a141a2554639959d50 nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off This fixed an inconsistency about nohz. Without this patch, When we boot with nohz=off and CONFIG_NO_HZ=Y, and the system is idle, powertop shows the cpu is always i

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up

2014-06-16 Thread chenweilong
Thanks! On 2014/6/17 1:19, Cong Wang wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 8:14 PM, chenweilong wrote: >> Oh..sorry, >> >> I must missed something important! > > Yes, you miss the FAQ: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt > >> What's the right way? >> > > Q: How can

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up

2014-06-16 Thread Cong Wang
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 8:14 PM, chenweilong wrote: > Oh..sorry, > > I must missed something important! Yes, you miss the FAQ: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt > What's the right way? > Q: How can I tell what patches are queued up for backporting to the vari

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up

2014-06-15 Thread chenweilong
Oh..sorry, I must missed something important! What's the right way? This patch solves the bug is 67951 on bugzilla https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67951 It's very worthy to be applied to stable 3.4.x kernels. As this patch can't be applied directly, I just modify it in my last mail,

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up

2014-06-15 Thread David Miller
From: Chen Weilong Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:04:39 +0800 > From: Gao feng > > commit 33d99113b1102c2d2f8603b9ba72d89d915c13f5 upstream. > > /* CHANGELOG */ > No, this is not how you ask for networking changes to be submitted to -stable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

[request for stable inclusion] ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up

2014-06-15 Thread Chen Weilong
From: Gao feng commit 33d99113b1102c2d2f8603b9ba72d89d915c13f5 upstream. /* CHANGELOG */ CC: Sabrina Dubroca CC: Hannes Frederic Sowa Reported-by: Weilong Chen Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen Signed-off-by: Gao feng Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [weilong: s/ip

[request for stable inclusion 2/3] serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround

2014-06-13 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d upstream. When configured with UART_16550_COMPATIBLE=NO or in versions prior to the introduction of this option, the Designware UART will ignore writes to the LCR if the UART is busy. The current workaround saves a copy of the las

[request for stable inclusion 1/3] serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow

2014-06-13 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa upstream When a serial port is configured for RTS/CTS flow control, serial core will disable the transmitter if it observes CTS is de-asserted. This is perfectly reasonable and appropriate when the UART lacks the ability to automat

[request for stable inclusion 0/3] serial: 8250_dw

2014-06-13 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Could you please queue following patches to 3.10.x? commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa: serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d: serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround (with conte

[request for stable inclusion 3/3] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression

2014-06-13 Thread Wang Nan
From: James Hogan commit 6979f8d28049879e6147767d93ba6732c8bd94f4 upstream. Commit c49436b657d0 (serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround) caused a regression. It added a check that the LCR was written properly to detect and workaround the busy quirk, but the behaviour of bit 5 (UART_L

Re: [request for stable inclusion][3.10.x] patches to avoid interrupt storm when perf sampling is too slow

2014-06-09 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:00:12AM +0800, Weng Meiling wrote: > > Hi Dave, Stephane, Knut, Peter or Will, > > 14c63f17b1fde5a575a28e96547a22b451c71fb5 > perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow > > e5302920da9ef23f9d19d4e9ac85704cc25bee7a > perf: Fix interrupt handler timing harness > >

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message

2014-06-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:08:09PM +0800, xiakaixu wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x ? > > Commit b69e63a45f2d96a0dfe930ed20385058d4574d2f : > perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message > > Which is upstreamed in v3.11. > > Without this patch,

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-05 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 05:12:41PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 21:11 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > > > On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, pleas

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 21:11 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > > On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. > > > As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. > > As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to CVE-2014-2672. > > > > Please add this line: > > "From:

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] PCI/ASPM: Don't touch ASPM if forcibly disabled

2014-06-04 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:07:11PM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:49:18PM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote: > > On 2014/4/25 22:42, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Yijing Wang > > > wrote: > > >> From: Joe Lawrence > > >> > > >> Hi Greg or Bjor

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-04 Thread Li Zefan
On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > Hi Greg, > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. > As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to CVE-2014-2672. > Please add this line: "From: Stanislaw Gruszka " > [ Upstream commit 21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4

[PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-04 Thread Xiangyu Lu
Hi Greg, I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to CVE-2014-2672. [ Upstream commit 21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8 ] We check tid->sched without a lock taken on ath_tx_aggr_sleep(). That is race condition wh

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] powerpc/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transactio

2014-06-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:49:30AM +, Liu Xue wrote: > Hi Greg, > I'm not sure if you did not include this for a reason in the latest 3.10.y > or if you just missed it. If in the later case, please backport it. I didn't add it to 3.10-stable as it did not apply to that tree. Thanks for doing

[PATCH][request for stable inclusion] powerpc/tm: Fix crash when forking inside a transactio

2014-06-04 Thread Liu Xue
Hi Greg, I'm not sure if you did not include this for a reason in the latest 3.10.y or if you just missed it. If in the later case, please backport it. [ Upstream commit 621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291 ] When we fork/clone we currently don't copy any of the TM state to the new thread. T

Re: Request for stable inclusion

2014-06-03 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:03:36PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Hi, > > commit b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533 > Author: David Ertman > Date: Tue Mar 25 04:27:55 2014 + > > e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out > > fixes an issue which affects quite

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