Re: Call for tools backports (was Re: preparations for 4.13.3)

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

On 17/03/2021 14:55, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Julien Grall writes ("Re: preparations for 4.13.3"):
> > On 08/03/2021 09:49, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > the release is overdue (my apologies). Please point out backports
> > > you find missing from the respective staging branches, but which
> > > you consider relevant.
> > > > Ones that I have queued already, but which hadn't passed the push
> > > gate to master yet when doing a swipe late last week, are
> > >
> > > c6ad5a701b9a crypto: adjust rijndaelEncrypt() prototype for gcc11
> > > 9318fdf757ec x86/shadow: suppress "fast fault path" optimization without 
> > > reserved bits
> > > 60c0444fae21 x86/shadow: suppress "fast fault path" optimization when running 
> > > virtualized
> > I would like to also consider the following one:
> >
> > 28804c0ce9fd SUPPORT.MD: Clarify the support state for the Arm SMMUv{1,
> > 2} drivers (4.11+ as updating the security support)
> > 067935804a8e xen/vgic: Implement write to ISPENDR in vGICv{2, 3} (4.13+)
> >       To support newer kernel on stable Xen
> > d81133d45d81 xen/arm: Add workaround for Cortex-A53 erratum #843419 (4.13+)
> > fd7479b9aec2 xen/arm: Add workaround for Cortex-A55 erratum #1530923 (4.13+)
> > 5505f5f8e7e8 xen/arm: Add Cortex-A73 erratum 858921 workaround (4.13+)
> > 63b4c9bfb788 xen/arm: mm: Access a PT entry before the table is unmapped
> > (4.13 only)
> > f6790389613c xen/arm: sched: Ensure the vCPU context is seen before
> > vcpu_pause() returns (4.13 only)
> >
> > I have put in parentheses the list of versions targeted.
> My backport list seems to have very few tools patches on it.
>
> If anyone has any tools bugfixes that ought to go into 4.13 please do
> let me know!
>
> Additionally, perhaps this one commit to be backported ?
>    935e0836710ce8cab584155b2844cea8497a5159
>    arm: replace typeof() with __typeof__()
I think it would be useful.

Cheers,

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Julien Grall