On 08-08-19, 17:36, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 06-08-19, 13:18, Mark Rutland wrote: > > Upstream and in v4.9, the meltdown patches came before the spectre > > patches, and doing this in the opposite order causes context problems > > like the above. > > > > Given that, I think it would be less surprising to do the meltdown > > backport first, though I apprecaite that's more work to get these > > patches in. :/ > > I attempted meltdown backport in the last two days and the amount of > extra patches to be backported is enormous. And I am not sure if > everything is alright as well now, and things will greatly rely on > reviews from you for it. > > For this series, what about just backporting for now to account for > CSV3 ? And attempting meltdown backport separately later ? > > 179a56f6f9fb arm64: Take into account ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV3 @Mark ? -- viresh
