On 26/08/14 10:45, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 08/23/2014 09:24 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:09:36PM +0100, James Hogan wrote: >>> On 30/07/14 17:00, James Hogan wrote: >>>> Hi Stephen & MIPS people >>>> >>>> v3.16 is fast approaching and there are quite a few important MIPS >>>> patches pending. Since Ralf appears to be unavailable at the moment I've >>>> reviewed and applied some of those patches which are least controversial >>>> to a fixes branch with the intention of sending a pull request to Ralf & >>>> Linus so that one of them can hopefully merge it before the release. >>> >>> I sent you a pull request for these fixes prior to v3.16 but >>> unfortunately they still missed the release, and only two of the patches >>> were applied in the main v3.17 MIPS merge. >>> >>> What are you intentions for the remaining fixes from Markos & Aaro? >> >> Ralf, any comments? I think at least this fix is imporant, >> because currently users can hang OCTEON systems simply by lauching >> multiple readers of the proc file: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/mips.git/commit/?id=08a9c3c9afcf6e8975fc1c9a97e871e6a039c25a >> >> A. >> > Hi, > > I plan to send GregKH another set of fixes to backport to 3.16, and > since this patch is now in mainline[1], I will include this one as well. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=608308682addfdc7b8e2aee88f0e028331d88e4d This particular fix is already marked for stable. The ones I applied that aren't marked for stable (but are now needed in linux-3.16.y) are: f85b71ceabb9 MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header ca4d24f7954f MIPS: Malta: EVA: Rename 'eva_entry' to 'platform_eva_init' 6521d9a436a6 MIPS: CPS: Initialize EVA before bringing up VPEs from secondary cores Cheers James
