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

    powerpc/tm: Make room for hypervisor in abort cause codes

to the 3.9-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-tm-make-room-for-hypervisor-in-abort-cause-codes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.

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


>From 35f7097fcedec63fcba1852dbee96f74a2d90878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 18:09:37 +0000
Subject: powerpc/tm: Make room for hypervisor in abort cause codes

From: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>

commit 35f7097fcedec63fcba1852dbee96f74a2d90878 upstream.

PAPR carves out 0xff-0xe0 for hypervisor use of transactional memory software
abort cause codes.  Unfortunately we don't respect this currently.

Below fixes this to move our cause codes to below this region.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -113,14 +113,15 @@
 
 /* Reason codes describing kernel causes for transaction aborts.  By
    convention, bit0 is copied to TEXASR[56] (IBM bit 7) which is set if
-   the failure is persistent.
+   the failure is persistent.  PAPR saves 0xff-0xe0 for the hypervisor.
 */
-#define TM_CAUSE_RESCHED       0xfe
-#define TM_CAUSE_TLBI          0xfc
-#define TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV      0xfa
-#define TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL       0xf9 /* Persistent */
-#define TM_CAUSE_MISC          0xf6
-#define TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL                0xf4
+#define TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT    0x01
+#define TM_CAUSE_RESCHED       0xde
+#define TM_CAUSE_TLBI          0xdc
+#define TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV      0xda
+#define TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL       0xd8  /* future use */
+#define TM_CAUSE_MISC          0xd6  /* future use */
+#define TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL                0xd4
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)
 #define MSR_64BIT      MSR_SF


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

queue-3.9/powerpc-tm-abort-on-emulation-and-alignment-faults.patch
queue-3.9/powerpc-tm-fix-userspace-stack-corruption-on-signal-delivery-for-active-transactions.patch
queue-3.9/powerpc-tm-update-cause-codes-documentation.patch
queue-3.9/powerpc-tm-make-room-for-hypervisor-in-abort-cause-codes.patch
queue-3.9/powerpc-tm-move-tm-abort-cause-codes-to-uapi.patch
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