On 17-06-19, 13:33, Julien Thierry wrote: > I think this commit was backported in 4.9 because one of the commits you > dropped (6840bdd73d07 arm64: KVM: Use per-CPU vector when BP hardening > is enabled) depended on it. Looks like that. I dropped 6840bdd73d07 patch at a later point of time when the conflicts couldn't get resolved properly any further. I should have dropped $subject one as well :( > I have yet to check whether that other > commit can be just dropped, however on your branch 4.4 branch, lm_alias > isn't used anywhere, so we probably don't want to backport this > particular patch (unless we need to actually backport the other patch in > some way). Right, dropping this doesn't generate any compilation warnings so we should be good without it. -- viresh
