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

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On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:34:52AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 13:35 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I say no, there are no users of the changed code.  If anyone can see a
> reason why we should, I would not disagree.

Ok, I'm not going to apply this as it doesn't make sense.  If someone
figures out it should be applied, please resend.

thanks,

greg k-h
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