Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/67] 4.4.1-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 01/31/2016 11:17 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 07:21:27PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 01/27/2016 06:23 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 01/27/2016 10:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > -------------------------
> > > > NOTE:
> > > >    There are still a lot of pending stable patches in the queue, well
> > > >    over 400 of them to be specific, so some of your favorite/pet patches
> > > >    might not be included in these releases.  Please be patient as I dig
> > > >    out from this backlog over the next few weeks.  If there are specific
> > > >    patches that you just _must_ have included in a stable release soon,
> > > >    please let me know.
> > > > -------------------------
> > > >
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.1 release.
> > > > There are 67 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Responses should be made by Fri Jan 29 18:08:16 UTC 2016.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > Build results:
> > >      total: 145 pass: 145 fail: 0
> > >
> > > Qemu test results:
> > >      total: 96 pass: 94 fail: 2
> > > Failed tests:
> > >      arm64:smp:defconfig
> > >      arm64:nosmp:defconfig
> > >
> > > arm64 qemu test failures are the same as in v4.1.y, v4.3.y, and mainline.
> >
> > Fix is now upstream, in case you want to apply it to v4.1 / v4.3 / v4.4.
> > Commit f436b2ac90a0 ("arm64: kernel: fix architected PMU registers
> > unconditional access").
>
> I've applied it to 4.3 and 4.4, but it doesn't apply to 4.1 at all :(

Turns out f436b2ac90a0 wasn't needed in 4.1 after all since you did not
apply 60792ad349f3 ("arm64: kernel: enforce pmuserenr_el0 initialization
and restore"). All (my) final builds and qemu tests for 4.1.17, 4.3.5,
and 4.4.1 are good.

Thanks,
Guenter