Re: Patch "ARM: 7762/1: kernel: fix arm_dt_init_cpu_maps() to skip non-cpu nodes" has been added to the 3.9-stable tree

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Hi Greg,

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:59:17PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     ARM: 7762/1: kernel: fix arm_dt_init_cpu_maps() to skip non-cpu nodes
> 
> to the 3.9-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:
>      arm-7762-1-kernel-fix-arm_dt_init_cpu_maps-to-skip-non-cpu-nodes.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.

Owing to dependencies on other patches getting upstreamed but not
necessarily backported to stable, waiting for a decision to be made
on that I would ask you please to remove this patch from the stable
queue since those dependencies can cause regressions, sorry about that.

Apologies and thanks,
Lorenzo

> 
> 
> From 1ba9bf0a9ae779c1a2b3eb64951e4161d9bad7a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:36:26 +0100
> Subject: ARM: 7762/1: kernel: fix arm_dt_init_cpu_maps() to skip non-cpu nodes
> 
> From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 1ba9bf0a9ae779c1a2b3eb64951e4161d9bad7a9 upstream.
> 
> The introduction of the cpu-map topology node in the cpus node implies
> that cpus node might have children that are not cpu nodes. The DT
> parsing code needs updating otherwise it would check for cpu nodes
> properties in nodes that are not required to contain them, resulting
> in warnings that have no bearing on bindings defined in the dts source file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ void __init arm_dt_init_cpu_maps(void)
>  	for_each_child_of_node(cpus, cpu) {
>  		u32 hwid;
>  
> +		if (of_node_cmp(cpu->type, "cpu"))
> +			continue;
> +
>  		pr_debug(" * %s...\n", cpu->full_name);
>  		/*
>  		 * A device tree containing CPU nodes with missing "reg"
> 
> 
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx are
> 
> queue-3.9/arm-7762-1-kernel-fix-arm_dt_init_cpu_maps-to-skip-non-cpu-nodes.patch
> 

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