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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : RPT related fixes missing in ubintu 16.04.3

---Problem Description---
The following patches are missing in the ubuntu 16.04.3 kernel

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-April/156104.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-April/156105.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-April/157130.html

---uname output---
4.10.0-29-generic #33~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 25 18:17:06 UTC 2017 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

Machine Type = power9

---Steps to Reproduce---
Did a fork and exec benchmark to look at the performance and they pointed to radix routines.

Upstream commits mentioned:

commit f7327e0ba3805470cced2acfa053e795362ee41d
powerpc/mm/radix: Remove unnecessary ptesync

commit f6b0df55cad252fedd60aa2ba75a0207d0006283
powerpc/mm/radix: Don't do page walk cache flush when doing full mm flush

commit a5998fcb92552a18713b6aa5c146aa400e4d75ee
powerpc/mm/radix: Optimise tlbiel flush all case