[3.10][3.8][3.5] ARM: Fix FIQ code on VIVT CPUs (was Re: [PATCH 076/133] ARM: update FIQ support for relocation of vectors)
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Aug 19 16:02:23 UTC 2013
Thanks Aaro. I'll apply "2ba85e7 ARM: Fix FIQ code on VIVT CPUs" to
3.8-stable.
Greg KH and Luis Henriques: Heads up! 3.10-stable and 3.5-stable also
need 2ba85e7 but it isn't marked cc: stable.
-Kamal
On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 00:09 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:33:38PM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > 3.8.13.7 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> >
> > commit e39e3f3ebfef03450cf7bfa7a974a8c61f7980c8 upstream.
> >
> > FIQ should no longer copy the FIQ code into the user visible vector
> > page. Instead, it should use the hidden page. This change makes
> > that happen.
>
> FYI, this patch introduced regression (kernel crash) at least on Amstrad
> E1 board (where FIQ is used for the keyboard). See the following thread:
> http://marc.info/?t=137583169900003&r=1&w=2
>
> So any stable kernels where this patch was added should also take:
>
> commit 2ba85e7af4c639d933c9a87a6d7363f2983d5ada
> Author: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Thu Aug 8 11:51:21 2013 +0100
>
> ARM: Fix FIQ code on VIVT CPUs
>
> That patch fixes the regression.
>
> A.
>
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