This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xtensa: clear all DBREAKC registers on start to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: xtensa-clear-all-dbreakc-registers-on-start.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7de7ac785ae18a2cdc78d7560f48e3213d9ea0ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 18:34:29 +0300 Subject: xtensa: clear all DBREAKC registers on start From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> commit 7de7ac785ae18a2cdc78d7560f48e3213d9ea0ab upstream. There are XCHAL_NUM_DBREAK registers, clear them all. This also fixes cryptic assembler error message with binutils 2.25 when XCHAL_NUM_DBREAK is 0: as: out of memory allocating 18446744073709551575 bytes after a total of 495616 bytes Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ ENTRY(_startup) wsr a0, icountlevel .set _index, 0 - .rept XCHAL_NUM_DBREAK - 1 + .rept XCHAL_NUM_DBREAK wsr a0, SREG_DBREAKC + _index .set _index, _index + 1 .endr Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/xtensa-iss-don-t-hang-if-stdin-eof-is-reached.patch queue-4.5/xtensa-clear-all-dbreakc-registers-on-start.patch queue-4.5/xtensa-fix-preemption-in-clear-copy-_user_highpage.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html