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Re: Features backports

Takuo Koguchi
 

Hi,

Regarding to Altera Socfpga Cyclone V, we might want to backport from 4.9;
- L2cache ECC(./arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c)
- QSPI Flash controller(drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c)

4.9 is still missing the followings which exist in the verdor tree(linux-socfpga);
- HPS2FPGA(drivers/fpga/altera-hps2fpga.c)
- NAND Flash controller(drivers/mtd/nand/denali_dt.c)
I hope we can encourage Altera to push these features upstream or do it ourselves.

Takuo

-----Original Message-----
From: cip-dev-bounces@...
[mailto:cip-dev-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Agustin Benito
Bethencourt
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:26 PM
To: cip-dev@...
Subject: [!][cip-dev] Features backports

Hi,

as you probably know, the more features we backport, the higher will be the
maintenance cost overtime so as a strategy, we need to be very
conservative.

I sent a mail some days ago about the features backported already by Linaro
for their LSK (Linaro Stable Kernel) for your evaluation. I bring today some
potential backports related with security features and hardware support that
has been identified by Ben H.

* UBSAN support:
<https://git.kernel.org/linus/c6d308534aef6c99904bf5862066360ae067abc4
* Increased user-space ASLR range for ARM:
<https://lwn.net/Articles/667790/>

* Page poisoning on free:
<https://git.kernel.org/linus/8823b1dbc05fab1a8bec275eeae4709257c2661
d>,
<https://git.kernel.org/linus/1414c7f4f7d72d138fff35f00151d15749b5beda>

* SLAB/SLUB freelist randomisation

* Hardened usercopy

* Do Members use SLUB? if not, we should take a look at KASAN support for
SLAB

* drm/tilcdc update? (many bug fixes post-4.4)

* AM33xx RTC support:

<https://git.kernel.org/linus/461932dfb54ebaf7da438fd8b769a01ce97a9360
,
<https://git.kernel.org/linus/b5a553c08bec14a058501df3fa6eb39f63f00a98>


Best Regards
--
Agustin Benito Bethencourt
Principal Consultant - FOSS at Codethink agustin.benito@...
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