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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:38:44AM -0200, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> 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.

Now dropped from both queues.

thanks,

greg k-h