On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 12:00:51PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:39:18PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Mon 2019-04-01 19:02:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > > > know. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > [ Upstream commit f6cf0545ec697ddc278b7457b7d0c0d86a2ea88e ] > > > > > > Some architectures require code written to memory as if it were data to be > > > 'cleaned' from any data caches before the processor can fetch them as new > > > instructions. > > > > > > During resume from hibernate, the snapshot code copies some pages > > > directly, > > > meaning these architectures do not get a chance to perform their cache > > > maintenance. Modify the read and decompress code to call > > > flush_icache_range() on all pages that are restored, so that the restored > > > in-place pages are guaranteed to be executable on these architectures. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.mo...@arm.com> > > > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> > > > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@rjwysocki.net> > > > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> > > > [will: make clean_pages_on_* static and remove initialisers] > > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org> > > > > I don't think this is suitable for stable. > > > > Catalin: Are there platforms that a) need this and b) support > > hibernation in 4.4.X? > > Good point. This commit was required for the arm64 hibernate support > that went in the 4.7 kernel. > > Greg, why was this patch selected for stable? It's harmless anyway.
It came in through Sasha's "magic patch selection AI" tools :) If it's harmless, might as well leave it in now, and not revert it. thanks, greg k-h
