On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 09:11:50PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:25:32AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 05:15:35PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 10:17:32AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:15:54PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:28:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > As I've already fed back to Sascha about this, this patch on its own > > > > > does not fix anything, and is not a stable kernel candidate without > > > > > a patch that makes use of it (iow, the spectre fixes.) It is a > > > > > preparatory patch for mainline commit 383fb3ee8024. > > > > > > > > > > Every commit in: > > > > > > > > > > $ git rev-list v4.16..383fb3ee8024 > > > > > > > > > > are the ARM spectre fixes, which are being back-ported by David Long. > > > > > > > > > > Please do not cherry-pick commits from within this series for _any_ > > > > > stable kernel, but please wait for David to send you the back-ported > > > > > patches. > > > > > > > > Ugh, ok, that's a bunch here. > > > > > > Ok, not that bad, only 4: > > > 383fb3ee8024 ("ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems") > > > e209950fdd06 ("ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros") > > > 945aceb1db88 ("ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call") > > > 899a42f83667 ("ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init") > > > > > > I'll go drop them all from the trees now. Turns out for 4.14 one of > > > these patches broke the build anyway. Sasha, how did that past your > > > builder tests? > > > > Because it builds :) > > Really? It broke Guenter's builds... I might be missing something, but Guenter's reply to this -rc thread (https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg272294.html) was: > For v3.18.127-83-gc3953c334bf6: > > Build results: > total: 160 pass: 160 fail: 0 > Qemu test results: > total: 223 pass: 223 fail: 0The breakage happened on the 4.14 tree with one of the patches above, which caused me to do a -rc2.
Oh, I see :( I suspect that I have a bug somewhere in my scripts that deal with removing patches from the middle of git branches, I'll try a few testcases tomorrow. -- Thanks, Sasha
