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Date:   Sun, 2 Dec 2018 10:17:32 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 14/83] ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 04:15:54PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:28:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As I've already fed back to Sascha about this, this patch on its own
>> > does not fix anything, and is not a stable kernel candidate without
>> > a patch that makes use of it (iow, the spectre fixes.)  It is a
>> > preparatory patch for mainline commit 383fb3ee8024.
>> >
>> > Every commit in:
>> >
>> > $ git rev-list v4.16..383fb3ee8024
>> >
>> > are the ARM spectre fixes, which are being back-ported by David Long.
>> >
>> > Please do not cherry-pick commits from within this series for _any_
>> > stable kernel, but please wait for David to send you the back-ported
>> > patches.
>>
>> Ugh, ok, that's a bunch here.
>
>Ok, not that bad, only 4:
>	383fb3ee8024 ("ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems")
>	e209950fdd06 ("ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros")
>	945aceb1db88 ("ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call")
>	899a42f83667 ("ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init")
>
>I'll go drop them all from the trees now.  Turns out for 4.14 one of
>these patches broke the build anyway.  Sasha, how did that past your
>builder tests?

Because it builds :)

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Thanks,
Sasha