This records the fact that the two commits below in the hostos-1.0 release were submitted upstream and accepted after v4.8 was released. They are:
490b36e21ed9 ("powerpc/64: Re-fix race condition between going idle and entering guest", 2016-10-21)
945f41977147 ("powerpc/64: Fix race condition in setting lock bit in idle/wakeup code", 2016-10-21)
These commits fix a sporadic soft-lockup in ktime_get_ts64() which has been observed on several systems.
These patches are in v4.9-rc3 with commit IDs 56c46222af0d and 09b7e37b18ee and are marked for the stable trees.
This records the fact that the two commits below in the hostos-1.0 release were submitted upstream and accepted after v4.8 was released. They are:
490b36e21ed9 ("powerpc/64: Re-fix race condition between going idle and entering guest", 2016-10-21) 945f41977147 ("powerpc/64: Fix race condition in setting lock bit in idle/wakeup code", 2016-10-21)
These commits fix a sporadic soft-lockup in ktime_get_ts64() which has been observed on several systems.
These patches are in v4.9-rc3 with commit IDs 56c46222af0d and 09b7e37b18ee and are marked for the stable trees.