Re: [PATCH 4.20 41/65] Revert "powerpc/tm: Unset MSR[TS] if not recheckpointing"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Jan 13 2019 - 02:12:07 EST


On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:35:59PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote...
>
> > 4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This reverts commit d412deb85a4aada382352a8202beb7af8921cd53 which is
> > commit 6f5b9f018f4c7686fd944d920209d1382d320e4e upstream.
> >
> > It breaks the powerpc build, so drop it from the tree until a fix goes
> > upstream.
>
> Is this necessary on 4.20? The build failures I reported were on 4.19
> only. The 4.20.2-rc1 kernel for my Powermac G5 builds with and without
> that patch, both boot fine, no visible differences. Again however, Breno
> is authoritative here.

If there's no difference on 4.20, then maybe it's not needed there? :)

And yes, I would like confirmation from Breno as well.

thanks,

greg k-h