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

powerpc/64s: Remove SAO feature from Power9 DD1

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-64s-remove-sao-feature-from-power9-dd1.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 foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018

From: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:27:38 +1000 Subject: powerpc/64s: Remove SAO feature from Power9 DD1

From: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit ca80d5d0a8175c9be04cfbce24180b8f5e0a744b ]

Power9 DD1 does not implement SAO. Although it's not widely used, its presence or absence is visible to user space via arch_validate_prot() so it's moderately important that we get the value right.

Fixes: 7dccfbc325bb ("powerpc/book3s: Add a cpu table entry for different POWER9 revs") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h @@ -474,7 +474,8 @@ enum { CPU_FTR_ICSWX | CPU_FTR_CFAR | CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_VMX_COPY | \ CPU_FTR_DBELL | CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR | CPU_FTR_DAWR | \ CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S | CPU_FTR_TM_COMP | CPU_FTR_ARCH_300) -#define CPU_FTRS_POWER9_DD1 (CPU_FTRS_POWER9 | CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD1) +#define CPU_FTRS_POWER9_DD1 ((CPU_FTRS_POWER9 | CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD1) & \ + (~CPU_FTR_SAO)) #define CPU_FTRS_CELL (CPU_FTR_USE_TB | CPU_FTR_LWSYNC | \ CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2 | CPU_FTR_CTRL | \ CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC_COMP | CPU_FTR_MMCRA | CPU_FTR_SMT | \

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

queue-4.9/powerpc-64s-remove-sao-feature-from-power9-dd1.patch