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=f5beabfe61794d9a9d9549d387cda2
bffd81e504
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 at 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
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