Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/141] 4.9.137-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:39:56AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 19:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:38:44AM -0200, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> > > On 11/11/18 8:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.137 release.
> > > > There are 141 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Responses should be made by Tue Nov 13 22:15:38 UTC 2018.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > >     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.137-rc1.gz
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > > >
> > > > -------------
> > > > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> > > >
> > > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >      Linux 4.9.137-rc1
> > > >
> > > ...
> > > > Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >      cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare
> > >
> > > Greg, maybe...
> > >
> > > commit ef8d3a128c1f1de7ffdedb2f14e846e10fd3fec3
> > > Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Mon Oct 8 12:06:19 2018
> > >
> > >     cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare
> > >
> > >     [ Upstream commit f69ffc5d3db8f1f03fd6d1df5930f9a1fbd787b6 ]
> > >
> > > should be dropped from v4.9 (and v4.4) since it causes:
> > >
> > > $ make V=1 -C tools/power/cpupower all
> > >
> > > gcc -fPIC -DVERSION=\"4.9.136.142.g36c7703\" -DPACKAGE=\"cpupower\"
> > > -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -pipe -DNLS
> > > -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign
> > > -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshadow -O1 -g -DDEBUG -I./lib -I ./utils -o
> > > utils/helpers/amd.o -c utils/helpers/amd.c
> > > utils/helpers/amd.c: In function âdecode_pstatesâ:
> > > utils/helpers/amd.c:106:39: error: âunion msr_pstateâ has no member named
> > > âfam17h_bitsâ
> > >    if ((cpu_family == 0x17) && (!pstate.fam17h_bits.en))
> > >
> > > Due to nonexistent CPU (flag) support.
> > >
> > > Replied to Sasha on specific commits for both, v4.4 and v4.9.
> >
> > Now dropped from both queues.
> 
> Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Great, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h