Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 14:34:34 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        shuahkh@osg.samsung.com, patches@kernelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, Tao Wu <lepton@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:03:17PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 13:17 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 05:37:54AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 15:45 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The crash part of this problem may be solved with the following patch
> > > > (thanks to Hugh for the hint). There is still another problem, though -
> > > > with this patch applied, the qemu session aborts with "VCPU Shutdown
> > > > request", whatever that means.
> > > 
> > > The crash part is not fixed by your patch here, w/wo I get this, and it
> > > is PTI, as virgin 109 boots/works with identical everything else. ?My
> > > shiny new PTI equipped enterprise 4.4 RT kernels also boot/work fine,
> > > which seems a bit odd.. and not particularly comforting.
> > 
> > Might I ask _what_ enterprise 4.4 kernels you are trying here?  This
> > should be the identical set to what is in the SLES12 tree, which worries
> > me a lot...
> 
> SLE12-SP[23]-RT, currently 4.4.104 based. Parent trees boot fine in the
> vm too.  I thought perhaps it was a config difference, but seems not,
> 4.4.110-rc1 built with as close to enterprise config as you can get
> blows up the same as my light config.

Ok, we found two patches that were missing in 4.4-stable that were in
the SLES12 tree (thanks to Jamie Iles), now I only have 19k more to sift
through :)

I should probably do an "interm" release to get people to be able to
sync up to a common place easier for testing, dealing with patch sets
and random emails saying different git ids is not easy for anyone.

thanks,

greg k-h