Hi Jim,

We have the two patchsets ready and tested in our X-Gene 3 platform
with the 4.11.0-44 kernel as you suggested before. Can you help
to integrate the attached patches to sig-altarch7-aarch64 for CENTOS 7.4 GA?

As a summary, the 1st patchset (8001) includes the following individual patches:

1. Bug-62016-BACKPORT-iommu-enable-bypass-tra.patch
    iommu/arm-smmu: Enable bypass transaction caching for ARM SMMU 500
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c?h=next-20180112&id=74f55d34414c866dbf3a69e28a2f963abe61ca58

2. BACKPORT-iommu-iova-Fix-underflow-bug-in-_.patch
    iommu/iova: Fix underflow bug in __alloc_and_insert_iova_range
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata.git/commit/drivers/iommu/iova.c?h=for-4.12-fixes&id=5016bdb796b3726eec043ca0ce3be981f712c756

3. BACKPORT-ata-fixes-kernel-crash-while-trac.patch
    ata: fixes kernel crash while tracing ata_eh_link_autopsy event
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata.git/commit/?h=for-4.15&id=f1601113ddc0339a745e702f4fb1ca37d4875e65

4. hwmon-xgene-Support-hwmon-v2.patch
    hwmon: (xgene) Support hwmon v2
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=749d782d80de6db454af4336a4f4c8dfe79a5fc4


5. BACKPORT-ACPI-scan-Apply-default-enumeration-to-devi.patch
    ACPI / scan: Apply default enumeration to devices with ACPI drivers
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=next-20171018&id=f5beabfe61794d9a9d9549d387cda2bffd81e504
    6. BACKPORT-ACPI-scan-Fix-enumeration-for-special-SPI-a.patch
    ACPI / scan: Fix enumeration for special SPI and I2C devices
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e4330d8bf669139a983255d1801733b64c2ae841

7. BACKPORT-i2c-xgene-slimpro-Support-v2.patch
    i2c: xgene-slimpro: Support v2
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=da24b8240fe6afdeef388a2ef1da662b25675a5a


8. printk-fix-name-type-scope-of-preferred_console-var.patch
    printk: fix name/type/scope of preferred_console var
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b077bafa2f3848ddfcef2ef3a4a61a867f9113b5

9. printk-rename-selected_console-preferred_console.patch
    printk: rename selected_console -> preferred_console
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ad86ee2b8a47590f62a4f3bc1d25dc126d121cb9

10. printk-fix-double-printing-with-earlycon.patch
      printk: fix double printing with earlycon
      https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cf39bf58afdaabc0b86f141630fb3fd18190294e

The 2nd patch (8002) has a single patch. This one posted by Ard
Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> is needed in order to resolve
the following issue found in our tests.

 [    2.843717] pci 0007:02:00.0: BAR 0: failed to claim resource for efifb!

      efifb-arm-arm64-validate-fb-BAR-instead-of-claiming-.patch
      efifb: arm/arm64: validate fb BAR instead of claiming itlogin
      Not yet upstream
      https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9674723/

Please let me know if you have any comments or need anything else in
order to get them ported for CentOS 7.4 GA.

Thanks
Charles