From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
duwe@lst.de, ast@kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
chris@distroguy.com, oss@buserror.net,
paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, oohall@gmail.com,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca,
bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org,
naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:48:20 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737j8opwb.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <581ACDF2.1010409@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> On Thursday 03 November 2016 02:34 AM, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>> Hi Ravi,
>>
>>> emulate_step() uses a number of underlying kernel functions that were
>>> initially not enabled for LE. This has been rectified since. So, fix
>>> emulate_step() for LE for the corresponding instructions.
>> Thanks. Should this be queued up for stable?
>
> Thanks Anton. Yes, this should go in stable.
It's fairly big for stable. Does it fix an actual bug? If so what, and
how bad is it, what's the user impact.
Can you also pinpoint which commit it "fixes"?
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-03 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-02 8:53 [PATCH 0/3] " Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-02 8:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-02 21:04 ` Anton Blanchard
2016-11-03 5:41 ` Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-03 9:48 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2016-11-03 10:27 ` Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-04 2:07 ` Andrew Donnellan
2016-11-04 5:31 ` Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-05 19:31 ` Anton Blanchard
2016-11-06 18:59 ` Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-02 8:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Add encoding for couple of load/store instructions Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-02 8:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: emulate_step test for " Ravi Bangoria
2016-11-02 10:30 ` Naveen N. Rao
2016-11-03 7:03 ` [PATCH 0/3] powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE Naveen N. Rao
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