This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

powerpc: fix build errors in stable tree

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: powerpc-fix-build-errors-in-stable-tree.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 222f20f140623ef6033491d0103ee0875fe87d35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:07:15 +1100 Subject: powerpc: fix build errors in stable tree

From: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com

This is just the first chunk of commit 222f20f140623ef6033491d0103ee0875fe87d35 upstream.

to fix a build error in the powerpc tree due to other backports happening (and this full patch not being backported).

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Reported-by: Yves-Alexis Perez corsac@debian.org Cc: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com Cc: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: Yves-Alexis Perez corsac@debian.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ #include <asm/tm.h> #include <asm/ppc-opcode.h> #include <asm/export.h> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S +#include <asm/exception-64s.h> +#else +#include <asm/exception-64e.h> +#endif

/* * System calls.

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from npiggin@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/powerpc-fix-build-errors-in-stable-tree.patch