Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Fix unitialized timer reset on migration" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[Michael Bringmann <mwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For 4.9-stable & 4.14-stable, we would adapt commit 8604895a34d92f5e186ceb931b0d1b384030ea3d
to the following:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c    2018-10-02 13:18:42.615084257 -0500
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c    2018-10-02 13:19:51.488209551 -0500
@@ -1469,7 +1469,8 @@
 {
        topology_timer.data = 0;
        topology_timer.expires = jiffies + 60 * HZ;
-       mod_timer(&topology_timer, topology_timer.expires);
+       if (vphn_enabled)
+               mod_timer(&topology_timer, topology_timer.expires);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP




On 10/02/2018 11:27 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 09:18:26AM -0500, Michael Bringmann wrote:
>> To backport the patc
>>
>>     commit 8604895a34d92f5e186ceb931b0d1b384030ea3d
>>
>> to the 4.4-stable tree, please try the following backport:
> 
> What about 4.14-stable and 4.9-stable?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
> 

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