Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933549Ab0GAWZo (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:25:44 -0400 Received: from shutemov.name ([188.40.19.243]:53832 "EHLO shutemov.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756350Ab0GAWZm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:25:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:25:41 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Anfei Zhou , Russell King Subject: Re: [patch 071/149] ARM: 6166/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on pre-ARMv6 Message-ID: <20100701222541.GB10481@shutemov.name> References: <20100701175144.GA2116@kroah.com> <20100701173212.785441106@clark.site> <20100701221420.GA10481@shutemov.name> <20100701221728.GA12187@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100701221728.GA12187@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1438 Lines: 37 On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 03:17:28PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:14:20AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:31:37AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > 2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > From: Anfei > > > > > > commit 5e27fb78df95e027723af2c90ecc9b4527ae59e9 upstream. > > > > > > Instruction faults on pre-ARMv6 CPUs are interpreted as > > > a 'translation fault', but do_translation_fault doesn't > > > handle well if user mode trying to run instruction above > > > TASK_SIZE, and result in the infinite retry of that > > > instruction. > > > > Actually, this patch helps also on ARMv6+. Probably, better to correct > > commit message for stable. > > We (well, I) like to keep the commit log identical to what is upstream > just to make things easier all around. Otherwise people start asking > for spelling fixes, clarifications, and all sorts of other stuff (like > this.) Ok, fair enough. I asked for it because I was confused by this commit message while investigate (the same) problem on ARMv7 CPU. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/