Re: Needed in 5.4.y: [PATCH 5.10 055/126] ACPI: tables: x86: Reserve memory occupied by ACPI tables

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 5:57 PM George Kennedy
<george.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 4/30/2021 9:40 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 01:24:06PM -0400, George Kennedy wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4/28/2021 8:52 AM, George Kennedy wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 4/28/2021 12:57 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 06:18:05PM -0400, George Kennedy wrote:
> >>>>> CC+ stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 4/27/2021 6:17 PM, George Kennedy wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello Greg,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We need the following 2 upstream commits applied to 5.4.y to
> >>>>>> fix an iBFT
> >>>>>> boot failure:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2021-03-29 rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx - 1a1c130a 2021-03-23 Rafael J.
> >>>>>> Wysocki ACPI: tables: x86: Reserve memory occupied by ACPI tables
> >>>>>> 2021-04-13 rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx - 6998a88 2021-04-13 Rafael J.
> >>>>>> Wysocki ACPI: x86: Call acpi_boot_table_init() after
> >>>>>> acpi_table_upgrade()
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Currently, only the first commit (1a1c130a) is destined for
> >>>>>> 5.10 & 5.11.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The 2nd commit (6998a88) is needed as well and both commits are needed
> >>>>>> in 5.4.y.
> >>>> Is this a regression (i.e. did this hardware work on older kernels?),
> >>>> and if so, what commit caused the problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> These commits are already in 5.10.y, what changed in older kernels to
> >>>> require this to be backported?
> >> Hello Greg,
> >>
> >> Can the same 2 patches also be applied to 4.14.y, which one of distros is
> >> based on?
> >>
> >> 4.14.y crashes during ibft boot with KASAN enabled without the 2 patches.
> > What about 4.19.y?  You do not want to skip anything in the middle,
> > right?
> >
> > And I need an ack from the authors and maintainers of these changes
> > before I can take them into the stable trees.  Any reason you didn't cc:
> > them all?
> CC+ maintainers
>
> Rafael and Mike,
>
> We need Rafael's 2 upstream ACPI commits (1a1c130a & 6998a88) backported
> to more of the stable branches - at least in 5.4.y, 4.14.y, and 4.19.y.
>
> Can you (along with the other maintainers) ACK the request?

Sure, please send an inclusion request to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as
per the documentation with a CC to me and I'll respond with an ACK if
needed.

Thanks!



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