This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: Use privileged SPR number for MMCR2 to the 4.6-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: powerpc-use-privileged-spr-number-for-mmcr2.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8dd75ccb571f3c92c48014b3dabd3d51a115ab41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:29:11 +0200 Subject: powerpc: Use privileged SPR number for MMCR2 From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8dd75ccb571f3c92c48014b3dabd3d51a115ab41 upstream. We are already using the privileged versions of MMCR0, MMCR1 and MMCRA in the kernel, so for MMCR2, we should better use the privileged versions, too, to be consistent. Fixes: 240686c13687 ("powerpc: Initialise PMU related regs on Power8") Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ #define MMCR0_FCWAIT 0x00000002UL /* freeze counter in WAIT state */ #define MMCR0_FCHV 0x00000001UL /* freeze conditions in hypervisor mode */ #define SPRN_MMCR1 798 -#define SPRN_MMCR2 769 +#define SPRN_MMCR2 785 #define SPRN_MMCRA 0x312 #define MMCRA_SDSYNC 0x80000000UL /* SDAR synced with SIAR */ #define MMCRA_SDAR_DCACHE_MISS 0x40000000UL Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thuth@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/powerpc-fix-definition-of-siar-and-sdar-registers.patch queue-4.6/powerpc-use-privileged-spr-number-for-mmcr2.patch queue-4.6/powerpc-pseries-add-power8nvl-support-to-ibm-client-architecture-support-call.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