Re: [PATCH stable 6.3 v2] arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Tue May 30 2023 - 17:39:14 EST


Yo Florian,

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx>
>
> commit 3522340199cc060b70f0094e3039bdb43c3f6ee1 upstream
>
> fetch_cache_info() tries to get the number of cache leaves/levels
> for each CPU in order to pre-allocate memory for cacheinfo struct.
> Allocating this memory later triggers a:
> 'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context'
> in PREEMPT_RT kernels.
>
> If there is no cache related information available in DT or ACPI,
> fetch_cache_info() fails and an error message is printed:
> 'Early cacheinfo failed, ret = ...'
>
> Not having cache information should be a valid configuration.
> Remove the error message if fetch_cache_info() fails with -ENOENT.
>
> Suggested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230404-hatred-swimmer-6fecdf33b57a@spud/
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230414081453.244787-4-pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

How come this now needs a backport? Did the rest of the series get
backported, but not this one since it has no fixes tag?

Cheers,
Conor.