This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sparc: Don't do hypervisor calls on non-sun4v in DS driver.
to the 3.0-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:
sparc-don-t-do-hypervisor-calls-on-non-sun4v-in-ds-driver.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it.
>From c92761fd9efcbbcb59e7bf4db88e29ce03229889 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:58:59 -0700
Subject: sparc: Don't do hypervisor calls on non-sun4v in DS driver.
From: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
commit c92761fd9efcbbcb59e7bf4db88e29ce03229889 upstream.
Reported-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <piete...@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/ds.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/ds.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/ds.c
@@ -1256,13 +1256,14 @@ static int __init ds_init(void)
{
unsigned long hv_ret, major, minor;
- hv_ret = sun4v_get_version(HV_GRP_REBOOT_DATA, &major, &minor);
- if (hv_ret == HV_EOK) {
- pr_info("SUN4V: Reboot data supported (maj=%lu,min=%lu).\n",
- major, minor);
- reboot_data_supported = 1;
+ if (tlb_type == hypervisor) {
+ hv_ret = sun4v_get_version(HV_GRP_REBOOT_DATA, &major, &minor);
+ if (hv_ret == HV_EOK) {
+ pr_info("SUN4V: Reboot data supported
(maj=%lu,min=%lu).\n",
+ major, minor);
+ reboot_data_supported = 1;
+ }
}
-
kthread_run(ds_thread, NULL, "kldomd");
return vio_register_driver(&ds_driver);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from da...@davemloft.net are
queue-3.0/ipv4-send-gratuitous-arp-for-secondary-ip-addresses-also.patch
queue-3.0/ipv4-constrain-ufo-fragment-sizes-to-multiples-of-8-bytes.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-detect-and-handle-ultrasparc-t3-cpu-types.patch
queue-3.0/bonding-fix-string-comparison-errors.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-use-popc-if-possible-for-hweight-routines.patch
queue-3.0/drivers-net-niu.c-adjust-array-index.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-set-reboot-cmd-using-reboot-data-hypervisor-call-if-available.patch
queue-3.0/net-audit-drivers-to-identify-those-needing-iff_tx_skb_sharing-cleared.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-size-mondo-queues-more-sanely.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-don-t-leave-sparc_pmu_type-null-on-sun4v.patch
queue-3.0/ipv4-use-rt_tos-after-some-rt_tos-conversions.patch
queue-3.0/net-cap-number-of-elements-for-sendmmsg.patch
queue-3.0/sch_sfq-fix-sfq_enqueue.patch
queue-3.0/dp83640-increase-receive-time-stamp-buffer-size.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-sanitize-cpu-feature-detection-and-reporting.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-use-popc-when-possible-for-ffs-__ffs-ffz.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-add-t3-sun4v-cpu-type-and-hypervisor-group-defines.patch
queue-3.0/net-fix-security_socket_sendmsg-bypass-problem.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-use-hweight64-in-popc-emulation.patch
queue-3.0/0002-net-Compute-protocol-sequence-numbers-and-fragment-I.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-add-some-missing-hypervisor-api-groups.patch
queue-3.0/fix-cdc-phonet-build.patch
queue-3.0/gianfar-fix-fiper-alignment-after-resetting-the-time.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-minor-tweaks-to-niagara-page-copy-clear.patch
queue-3.0/ipv4-fix-the-reusing-of-routing-cache-entries.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-don-t-do-hypervisor-calls-on-non-sun4v-in-ds-driver.patch
queue-3.0/ipv6-make-fragment-identifications-less-predictable.patch
queue-3.0/sis190-rx-filter-init-is-needed-for-mac-address-change.patch
queue-3.0/net-adjust-array-index.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-access-kernel-tsb-using-physical-addressing-when-possible.patch
queue-3.0/net-allow-netif_carrier-to-be-called-safely-from-irq.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-fix-build-with-debug_pagealloc-enabled.patch
queue-3.0/icmp-fix-regression-in-nexthop-resolution-during-replies.patch
queue-3.0/xfrm-fix-key-lengths-for-rfc3686-ctr-aes.patch
queue-3.0/0001-crypto-Move-md5_transform-to-lib-md5.c.patch
queue-3.0/gre-fix-improper-error-handling.patch
queue-3.0/net-add-iff_skb_tx_shared-flag-to-priv_flags.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-add-support-for-d-link-530t-rev-c1-kernel-bug-38862.patch
queue-3.0/sparc-don-t-do-expensive-hypervisor-pcr-write-unless-necessary.patch
queue-3.0/net-sendmmsg-should-only-return-an-error-if-no-messages-were-sent.patch
queue-3.0/mpt2sas-fixed-big-indian-issues-on-32-bit-ppc.patch
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