| From | Brian Norris <> | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2021 15:25:39 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 17/82] arm64: dts: rockchip: add Coresight debug range for RK3399 |
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 2:17 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: > > From: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> > > [ Upstream commit 75dccea503b8e176ad044175e891d7bb291b6ba0 ] > > Per Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-cpu-debug.txt. > > This IP block can be used for sampling the PC of any given CPU, which is > useful in certain panic scenarios where you can't get the CPU to stop > cleanly (e.g., hard lockup).
I don't understand why this is being backported to -stable. First of all, it won't work because it's missing dependencies (specifically, around the RK3399 clock driver). But even if it did, I don't see how this is a candidate for -stable.
Methinks the AI has gone too far again.
Brian
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