On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > kaiser: fix intel_bts perf crashes > > to the 4.4-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: > kaiser-fix-intel_bts-perf-crashes.patch > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. I thought that to get into stable the patch had to be in upstream first. As far as I know, there is no fix for this particular problem (BTS disabled due to KPTI caused crashes) upstream. Vince