This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: Add COMPAT_HWCAP_LPAE to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-add-compat_hwcap_lpae.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7d57511d2dba03a8046c8b428dd9192a4bfc1e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:37:40 +0000 Subject: arm64: Add COMPAT_HWCAP_LPAE From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> commit 7d57511d2dba03a8046c8b428dd9192a4bfc1e73 upstream. Commit a469abd0f868 (ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic ldrd/strd instructions) introduces HWCAP_ELF for 32-bit ARM applications. As LPAE is always present on arm64, report the corresponding compat HWCAP to user space. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/hwcap.h | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hwcap.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hwcap.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ #define COMPAT_HWCAP_IDIVA (1 << 17) #define COMPAT_HWCAP_IDIVT (1 << 18) #define COMPAT_HWCAP_IDIV (COMPAT_HWCAP_IDIVA|COMPAT_HWCAP_IDIVT) +#define COMPAT_HWCAP_LPAE (1 << 20) #define COMPAT_HWCAP_EVTSTRM (1 << 21) #define COMPAT_HWCAP2_AES (1 << 0) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(elf_hwcap); COMPAT_HWCAP_FAST_MULT|COMPAT_HWCAP_EDSP|\ COMPAT_HWCAP_TLS|COMPAT_HWCAP_VFP|\ COMPAT_HWCAP_VFPv3|COMPAT_HWCAP_VFPv4|\ - COMPAT_HWCAP_NEON|COMPAT_HWCAP_IDIV) + COMPAT_HWCAP_NEON|COMPAT_HWCAP_IDIV|\ + COMPAT_HWCAP_LPAE) unsigned int compat_elf_hwcap __read_mostly = COMPAT_ELF_HWCAP_DEFAULT; unsigned int compat_elf_hwcap2 __read_mostly; #endif Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx are queue-3.18/arm64-add-compat_hwcap_lpae.patch queue-3.18/clocksource-arch_timer-fix-code-to-use-physical-timers-when.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html