This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
alpha: fix reboot on Avanti platform
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:
alpha-fix-reboot-on-avanti-platform.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.
>From 55fc633c41a08ce9244ff5f528f420b16b1e04d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:59:54 -0500
Subject: alpha: fix reboot on Avanti platform
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 55fc633c41a08ce9244ff5f528f420b16b1e04d6 upstream.
We need to define NEED_SRM_SAVE_RESTORE on the Avanti, otherwise we get
machine check exception when attempting to reboot the machine.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/kernel/pci_impl.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_impl.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_impl.h
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ struct pci_iommu_arena
};
#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM) && \
- (defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_CIA) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_LCA))
+ (defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_CIA) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_LCA) || \
+ defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_AVANTI))
# define NEED_SRM_SAVE_RESTORE
#else
# undef NEED_SRM_SAVE_RESTORE
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/alpha-fix-crash-if-pthread_create-races-with-signal-delivery.patch
queue-4.4/alpha-fix-reboot-on-avanti-platform.patch