Patch "powerpc: Update TM user feature bits in scan_features()" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

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

powerpc: Update TM user feature bits in scan_features()

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-update-tm-user-feature-bits-in-scan_features.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:08:19 +1000
Subject: powerpc: Update TM user feature bits in scan_features()

From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>

commit 4705e02498d6d5a7ab98dfee9595cd5e91db2017 upstream.

We need to update the user TM feature bits (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM and PPC_FEATURE2_HTM) to mirror what we do with the kernel TM feature bit.

At the moment, if firmware reports TM is not available we turn off the kernel TM feature bit but leave the userspace ones on. Userspace thinks it can execute TM instructions and it dies trying.

This (together with a QEMU patch) fixes PR KVM, which doesn't currently support TM.

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -161,11 +161,12 @@ static struct ibm_pa_feature {
 	{0, MMU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE, 0, 0,		1, 2, 0},
 	{CPU_FTR_REAL_LE, 0, PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE, 0, 5, 0, 0},
 	/*
-	 * If the kernel doesn't support TM (ie. CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=n),
-	 * we don't want to turn on CPU_FTR_TM here, so we use CPU_FTR_TM_COMP
-	 * which is 0 if the kernel doesn't support TM.
+	 * If the kernel doesn't support TM (ie CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=n),
+	 * we don't want to turn on TM here, so we use the *_COMP versions
+	 * which are 0 if the kernel doesn't support TM.
 	 */
-	{CPU_FTR_TM_COMP, 0, 0, 0,		22, 0, 0},
+	{CPU_FTR_TM_COMP, 0, 0,
+	 PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_COMP|PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC_COMP, 22, 0, 0},
 };
 
 static void __init scan_features(unsigned long node, const unsigned char *ftrs,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/powerpc-scan_features-updates-incorrect-bits-for-real_le.patch queue-4.5/powerpc-update-tm-user-feature-bits-in-scan_features.patch queue-4.5/powerpc-update-cpu_user_features2-in-scan_features.patch