Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756404AbcKCJs2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2016 05:48:28 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:40349 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755592AbcKCJs0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2016 05:48:26 -0400 From: Michael Ellerman To: Ravi Bangoria , Anton Blanchard Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, duwe@lst.de, ast@kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, chris@distroguy.com, oss@buserror.net, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, oohall@gmail.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca, bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org, naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ravi Bangoria Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE In-Reply-To: <581ACDF2.1010409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1478076783-2872-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1478076783-2872-2-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20161103080412.68240cda@kryten> <581ACDF2.1010409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21 (https://notmuchmail.org) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:48:20 +1100 Message-ID: <8737j8opwb.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 18 Ravi Bangoria writes: > On Thursday 03 November 2016 02:34 AM, Anton Blanchard wrote: >> Hi Ravi, >> >>> emulate_step() uses a number of underlying kernel functions that were >>> initially not enabled for LE. This has been rectified since. So, fix >>> emulate_step() for LE for the corresponding instructions. >> Thanks. Should this be queued up for stable? > > Thanks Anton. Yes, this should go in stable. It's fairly big for stable. Does it fix an actual bug? If so what, and how bad is it, what's the user impact. Can you also pinpoint which commit it "fixes"? cheers