Re: mmiotrace fixes in stable kernels

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Well I use the patch on top of 4.5 on my system and I know it works on
4.4, because other tested it there, too.

Karol

2016-04-25 9:39 GMT+02:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> (Greg Cc:-ed)
>
> * karol herbst <karolherbst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I am sure this is the only one, but I never checked if anything else
>> is needed. Maybe to be sure it would be safe to just add it to 4.5 and
>> 4.4, because I am sure it works there without needing anything else
>> and most distributions have already packages for 4.4 or newer.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Karol
>>
>> 2016-04-23 13:05 GMT+02:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> > * karol herbst <karolherbst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Ingo,
>> >>
>> >> thanks for merging my mmiotrace fix :) As it seems it helps quite a
>> >> lot and I was wondering if it would be able to merge the fix for older
>> >> kernels as well.
>> >
>> > Sure. Do we only need:
>> >
>> >   cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")
>> >
>> > ... or are other fixes necessary as well?
>
> Ok.
>
> Greg, mind picking up upstream commit:
>
>    cfa52c0cfa4d ("x86/mm/kmmio: Fix mmiotrace for hugepages")
>
> for -stable v4.3, v4.4 and v4.5? I checked that it cherry-picked fine. (I have not
> performed a functional test on the other hand, maybe Karol wants to do that?)
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Ingo
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