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

    x86/asm/entry/64: Remove pointless jump to irq_return

to the 4.1-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:
     x86-asm-entry-64-remove-pointless-jump-to-irq_return.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

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


>From 5ca6f70f387b4f82903037cc3c5488e2c97dcdbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:24:29 -0700
Subject: x86/asm/entry/64: Remove pointless jump to irq_return

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 5ca6f70f387b4f82903037cc3c5488e2c97dcdbc upstream.

INTERRUPT_RETURN turns into a jmp instruction.  There's no need
for extra indirection.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f2318653dbad284a59311f13f08cea71298fd7c.1433449436.git.l...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -793,8 +793,6 @@ retint_kernel:
 restore_c_regs_and_iret:
        RESTORE_C_REGS
        REMOVE_PT_GPREGS_FROM_STACK 8
-
-irq_return:
        INTERRUPT_RETURN
 
 ENTRY(native_iret)
@@ -1640,7 +1638,7 @@ nmi_restore:
 
        /* Clear the NMI executing stack variable */
        movq $0, 5*8(%rsp)
-       jmp irq_return
+       INTERRUPT_RETURN
        CFI_ENDPROC
 END(nmi)
 


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

queue-4.1/x86-nmi-enable-nested-do_nmi-handling-for-64-bit-kernels.patch
queue-4.1/x86-nmi-64-switch-stacks-on-userspace-nmi-entry.patch
queue-4.1/x86-nmi-64-remove-asm-code-that-saves-cr2.patch
queue-4.1/x86-nmi-64-use-df-to-avoid-userspace-rsp-confusing-nested-nmi-detection.patch
queue-4.1/x86-asm-entry-64-remove-pointless-jump-to-irq_return.patch
queue-4.1/x86-nmi-64-reorder-nested-nmi-checks.patch
queue-4.1/x86-nmi-64-improve-nested-nmi-comments.patch
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