Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/141] 4.9.137-stable review

[Rafael David Tinoco]

On 11/11/18 8:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.137 release.
> There are 141 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 Tue Nov 13 22:15:38 UTC 2018.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.137-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> -------------
> Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      Linux 4.9.137-rc1
...
> Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
>      cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare

Greg, maybe...

commit ef8d3a128c1f1de7ffdedb2f14e846e10fd3fec3
Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Oct 8 12:06:19 2018

    cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare

    [ Upstream commit f69ffc5d3db8f1f03fd6d1df5930f9a1fbd787b6 ]

should be dropped from v4.9 (and v4.4) since it causes:

$ make V=1 -C tools/power/cpupower all

gcc -fPIC -DVERSION=\"4.9.136.142.g36c7703\" -DPACKAGE=\"cpupower\" 
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -pipe 
-DNLS -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare 
-Wno-pointer-sign -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshadow -O1 -g -DDEBUG 
-I./lib -I ./utils -o utils/helpers/amd.o -c utils/helpers/amd.c
utils/helpers/amd.c: In function âdecode_pstatesâ:
utils/helpers/amd.c:106:39: error: âunion msr_pstateâ has no member 
named âfam17h_bitsâ
   if ((cpu_family == 0x17) && (!pstate.fam17h_bits.en))

Due to nonexistent CPU (flag) support.

Replied to Sasha on specific commits for both, v4.4 and v4.9.

Thanks!
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Rafael D. Tinoco
Linaro Kernel Validation