Hi Fabio, On 09/09/16 14:44, Fabio Estevam wrote: > From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> > > commit 059e232089e45b0befc9933d31209c225e08b426 upstream. > > On systems where a single CPU is present, the GIC may not support > having SGIs delivered to a target list. In that case, we use the > self-SGI mechanism to allow the interrupt to be delivered locally. > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.7.x > Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx> I'm sorry, but what is the justification for this to be backported to a stable kernel? It is not a regression, since we never supported this kind of HW before. This is not a workaround for an erratum either. If that was a kernel bug, why not backport it all the way the the oldest stable, instead of limiting it to v4.7? Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny... -- 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