Re: [request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

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On 05/16/2014 03:37 AM, Bintian wrote:
> Thank you Catalin and Geoff, I will check these two patches.
> 
> On 2014/5/16 3:25, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 20:23 +0800, Bintian wrote:
>>> 09024aa61e1bc994404683e2e5b363484a15dd12
>>> arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine
>>>
>>> This patch fixed the cpu rest on ARM64 and is applicable to stable-3.10,
>>> it was built and tested successfully by Yiping Xu. how about your idea?
>>
>> Well, there are no users of the arm64 soft_restart() routine yet, so I
>> don't think it critical to fix it in older kernels.  Custom kernels can
>> always add this fix and the idmap fix Catalin mentioned into their patch
>> set.
>>
>> Kexec for arm64 will use soft_restart(), but kexec is still not merged
>> upstream yet.

Hi, so what is the status here? Should we merge some commits to stable?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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