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

    uprobes/powerpc: Add dependency on single step emulation

to the 3.8-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:
     uprobes-powerpc-add-dependency-on-single-step-emulation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

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


>From 5e249d4528528c9a77da051a89ec7f99d31b83eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 00:26:57 +0000
Subject: uprobes/powerpc: Add dependency on single step emulation

From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <[email protected]>

commit 5e249d4528528c9a77da051a89ec7f99d31b83eb upstream.

Uprobes uses emulate_step in sstep.c, but we haven't explicitly specified
the dependency. On pseries HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT protects us, but 44x has no
such luxury.

Consolidate other users that depend on sstep and create a new config option.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig      |    4 ++++
 arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile |    4 +---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -275,6 +275,10 @@ config PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE
        depends on PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS && 44x
        default y
 
+config PPC_EMULATE_SSTEP
+       bool
+       default y if KPROBES || UPROBES || XMON || HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+
 source "init/Kconfig"
 
 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
@@ -19,9 +19,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)   += copypage_64.o cop
                           checksum_wrappers_64.o hweight_64.o \
                           copyuser_power7.o string_64.o copypage_power7.o \
                           memcpy_power7.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_XMON)     += sstep.o ldstfp.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBES)  += sstep.o ldstfp.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT)       += sstep.o ldstfp.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_EMULATE_SSTEP)        += sstep.o ldstfp.o
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC64),y)
 obj-$(CONFIG_SMP)      += locks.o


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

queue-3.8/uprobes-powerpc-add-dependency-on-single-step-emulation.patch
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