Patch "alpha: fix reboot on Avanti platform" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    alpha: fix reboot on Avanti platform

to the 4.9-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-4.9 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-4.9/alpha-fix-formating-of-stack-content.patch
queue-4.9/pipe-fix-off-by-one-error-when-checking-buffer-limits.patch
queue-4.9/alpha-fix-crash-if-pthread_create-races-with-signal-delivery.patch
queue-4.9/pipe-actually-allow-root-to-exceed-the-pipe-buffer-limits.patch
queue-4.9/alpha-fix-reboot-on-avanti-platform.patch



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