On 09/09/16 16:31, Fabio Estevam wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 > > Without this patch imx6ul SoC hangs after a 'reboot' command. But that's not a regression, right? It *never* worked before, as far as I know, because we never supported such a configuration in the past. I'm a bit concerned when I see backporting random patches to random kernel versions for things that are not bugs. I'll leave it up to Greg to decide, but I thought I should point out what this patch actually is. 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